- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 14:17:58 +0200
- To: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.co.uk>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@royal-tunbridge-wells.org>, www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:08:19PM +0100, James Graham wrote: > "A question commonly asked of every lexicographer is "How do you choose > which words go into the Dictionary?" [snip] > So they don't include everything but do include anything with > significant usage. It all seems rather sensible to me. Indeed it does. But the important point is that there exist a considered "protocol", if you will, for when and what to include. In the case of the WA1, things are included, or excluded, or changed without rhyme or reason and without basis in actual, real-life, examples or "proof"*. Add to it that markup languages /are/, by necessity, stricter than natural languages, and the linguistic philosophies in question does not apply. * Without /apparent/ such, anyhow, since the WHATWG, oddly enough for a group that consist of browser vendors, appear not to read "wild" HTML ... -- - Tina Holmboe
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