Re: Mixing languages

On 14/06/2023 05:41, Ginger Claassen wrote:

> wel, I might not be an expert but rather a user in this case but we have
> a few pages in Germany, mostly government related pages, where they mark
> every foreign word e.g. download with a proper lang-tag. This might be
> absolutely perfect in the sense of the guidelines but is very annoying
> when using a tts to read the page since one has always a split of a
> second delay between switching tts and continuing reading. Therefore we
> in our work never marked those parts as a failure or even as a
> recommendation to fix.

Indeed I've come across these overzealous interpretations of "must mark 
up every language change!" which ignore the "unless it's become part of 
the vernacular/everyday use" part of the SC...

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