Re: Spanglish

Michael Everson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
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On 6 Jan 2017, at 19:27, Shawn Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It’s for identification of the content of something. It’s not CLDR-related. It’s a use of subtags for identification purposes.
> 
> I realize that isn't your use case, however Mark has indicated that they've had requests for resources for Spanglish and was interested in these mixed tags for resource selection.
> 
> I cannot figure out how that would work.  Or at least how it would work very predictably. 

Because the mixing content of any given Spanglish text is unpredictable. Indeed someone might use “auto” in one sentence and “carro” or “car” in another. It’s very much not fixed. 

Michael
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