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Håvard, thank you very much for your answer. Of course I feel the same way. I wanted to tell our correspondent that I had consulted the JAC, and now I can. Lucas Graves ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Cooperative Cataloging Program Specialist Data Integrity Section Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 (Nothing in this message is to be taken as a statement of official LC policy, etc.) From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Håvard Hjulstad Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: SV: Catalog/Authority Record Errors (fwd) Dear all, There are of course hundreds of alpha-3 (and alpha-2) identifiers that may as words "mean" something in the language in question or in any other language. We surely cannot start considering this when assigning identifiers! Best regards, Håvard -------------------- Håvard Hjulstad (prosjektleder / Project Manager) Standard Norge / Standards Norway [log in to unmask]<blocked::mailto:[log in to unmask]> -------------------- Fra: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] På vegne av Graves, David Lucas Sendt: 7. desember 2010 13:26 Til: [log in to unmask] Emne: FW: Catalog/Authority Record Errors (fwd) I doubt that this is a serious question, but I thought it best to forward it to you. Because the bibliographic code for Albanian is [alb], it isn't a issue in the library world. Lucas Graves ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Cooperative Cataloging Program Specialist Data Integrity Section Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 (Nothing in this message is to be taken as a statement of official LC policy, etc.) -----Original Message----- From: David Williamson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:21 PM To: Policy and Standards Division Subject: Catalog/Authority Record Errors (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:52:38 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Catalog/Authority Record Errors This data was submitted on: Friday, December 3, 2010 at 08:52:38 form = Library of Congress Online Catalog/Authority Record Error Report Form lccn = N/A title = Mr author = mode = Library of Congress Online Catalog number = Only this record error_description = I have noticed that the 3 character long country code for the Albanian language is a offensive word to the native Albanian language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes The word in question is "sqi" Where "qi" is "to f*ck" and where the "s" turns a word into a negative word. Therefore the "s'qi" in Albanian means "I can't F*ck" I do not mean to sound ignorant about this but I thought this would be the right place to report this. regards name = Valtid Caushi client_email = [log in to unmask] browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7