- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:34:41 +0200
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, public-html@w3.org
Philip & Le Khanh: > "Descriptivism" is more common on English-speaking countries than > in some others -- "L'Académie Française" is unashamably > prescriptive (and proscriptive), as is (I believe) its German > counterpart. Jftr., there is no direct German counterpart to the Académie Française. There has been vivid discussion for the past ten years about who is in charge of orthographic rules, though. Note that there are different kinds of rules: ones noöne can change, ones someone may change, ones anyone can change for oneself, and ones everyone is changing all the time little by little. (That is just one way to categorize them, though.) Spoken language falls mostly in the domain of the latter two. So does written language, but it is often governed to some degree (second type). Computer languages otoh. are prescribed for the most part.
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