Re: Language Subtag Registration

Is anyone aware of how speech-to-text tools use these sub-tags (if at all).
I'd like to know more about that, but I'm not sure where to look. Feel free
to ping me off list as this is a bit tangential.

thanks,
- Hugh

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:

> CE Whitehead wrote:
>
> eventually I suppose we will get subtags for all dialects
>>
>
> I don't see any basis for supposing that. Even if it were possible to
> define and identify "all dialects," and practical to characterize and
> exemplify them, a case would still have to be made for the utility of each
> such subtag for tagging content.
>
> there is yet no subtag for English as spoken in Brooklyn or New York
>> but some dialects such as New Foundland do have subtags.
>>
>
> Newfoundland English differs in more than just accent and a limited set of
> regional terms. As the references cited by the registration form showed,
> there are grammatical differences as well.
>
> I do think that the accents though vary with city location
>>
>
> It's almost never just about accents, and shouldn't be really. Once you
> get past a handful of very well-known regional accents, the line between
> "Michigan English" and "the way my cousin in Sault Ste. Marie talks"
> becomes very vague.
>
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