- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:14:43 +0200
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2010-06-10 08:57, Daniel Glazman wrote: > Le 10/06/10 02:20, Nathan a écrit : > >> Personally I don't see what's wrong with the term 'Polyglot', but > > Because my first reaction - with my light linguistics background - > when I saw the title was "oh a spec for multilingual documents" ? For computing purposes, the term is already recognised as meaning "... written in a valid form of multiple programming languages" [1]. Although the words has its roots in linguistics, using its existing meaning as a computer term is quite reasonable. FWIW, we had a brief discussion about this a while ago regarding my HTML5 authoring guide, when I wanted to find a more reader friendly term, and I ended up settling for polyglot anyway, as it was the most appropriate term I found. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_%28computing%29 -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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