Language or dialect determination is hardly an important issue in
linguistics (if that's what you mean), since the prevalent view
of language system is that it is psychological, rather than cultural
or social. Identification of dialect is a political issue.
What is an issue for linguists is how to cite many languages in
a document or on screen, where there may be no unique standard
orthographies, or where citation is phonetic, or according to some
arbitrary standard of a certain reference work, or ...
256 characters is not enough. Tagging strings is appropriate only
in special circumstances which are often not present in texts
linguists have to deal with.
-- Greg, lee@.Hawaii.edu
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