Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux

John Cowan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> So you expect only to tag these as la-linnaeus? Not la-DE-linnaeus or
> la-GB-linnaeus? I wager Citrocirus is [tsɪtʀotsiʀʊs] in German while
> [sɪtɹosiɹəs] or [sɪtɹosaɪɹəs] in English.


The accent used by a TTS engine is in the discretion of the user.  I might
prefer to have a text written in American English read to me by a Scottish
voice, but it would still properly be tagged "en-us".

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