[i18n-activity] No mechanism to indicate what the "default language" of a description is (#677)

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== No mechanism to indicate what the "default language" of a description is ==
Section 5.2.1 "Thing"
https://cdn.staticaly.com/gh/w3c/wot-thing-description/TD-TAG-review/index.html?env=dev#thing

> Provides additional (human-readable) information based on a default language.

The optional field `description` is described as above, but there appears to be no mechanism defined for declaring what language the "default language" is. It is possible that the JSON-LD `@context` mechanism could be used to supply an `@language` for a description. If that is the preferred or intended mechanism, it should be called out. Otherwise there should be mechanism, possibly at the document level, for declaring the default language using a BCP47 language tag.

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