Re: Registration request for subtag -urban

Den 2017-04-18 23:41, skrev "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]>:

> Not everyone is keen on the idea of taking a category of speech like
> "urban" or "baby talk" or "business-speak" that is easy to exemplify but
> hard to define precisely, and apply it to multiple (let alone "all")
> languages. You'll probably get a lot of resistance on that.

Count me in on that resistance. This is not a single definable entity;
it varies with language, city (even by part of city), and population group.

> "Urbanese" is not a common term in English for what you're trying to
> express. I found ONE hit on Bing, for the Urban Dictionary entry, and it
> was disdainful: "An umbrella term (most often used OUTSIDE the city)
> encompassing all urban vernacular as one language" -- implying that it
> isn't really.

/Kent K