[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 09:16:32 UTC 2011


Hoi,
So you understand what a macro language is. Why the kicking then ?
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 12 July 2011 10:59, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:03, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages that used to be
> > recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a
> > combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is
> > daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the
> consequence
> > of the work of the maintainers of the iso-639-1 and the iso-639-3.
>
> If you've read definition at SIL [1], you would know that it is just
> the first paragraph of the definition.
>
> [1] http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#M
>
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