Re: [geolang-comment] First proposals for ISO 639 and 3166 available

[Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

*Murray
> | It's been shown recently that the concept of "race" is fallacious,
> | and the idea that there are distinct boundaries between languages
> | (and not a continuum, a continual intermixing and evolution) is
> | similarly fallacious, [...]

*Lars Marius
> Certainly. Personally, I think that this applies to all subjecs, and
> the idea that subjects are Platonic and pre-existing independent of
> what we say about them is simply false. I think Bernard would agree
> with that.

Of course he does agree. (assuming the default value of Bernard is me)

But it is not because subject definition and boarders are arbitrary that they can't become
published subjects.
It's indeed *because* those definitions are arbitrary that they need to be defined
explicitly.

Bernard