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Subject: Re: [geolang-comment] First proposals for ISO 639 and 3166 available
Lars Marius Garshol scripsit: > Basically whether the strings in question are human-oriented names or > labels for the subjects[1]. In my opinion these strings are clearly > occurrences rather than names. The country at the south tip of Africa > has names like 'South Africa' and 'Afrique du Sud', but not like 'ZA', > 'ZAF', or '710'. Fair enough, but I still feel uncomfortable with saying that the string "710" is an *occurrence* of the country denoted by "South Africa", in the same sense that http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html is an occurrence of the (U.S.) Declaration of Independence. I may be misled by the use of the term "occurrence" here, though. OTOH, "710" does name (within a suitably restricted scope) that country, in the sense of being a unique label for it. The most central sense of "name", namely personal name, is not a basename in an XTM sense: there are other John Cowans within any non-arbitrary scope (there is another within Reuters, e.g., and we sometimes get each other's mail). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan
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