- From: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:21:45 -0400
- To: public-webpayments@w3.org
On 03/13/2014 11:37 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 3/13/14 10:03 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: > >> Primarily, let's stop using them because they don't line up >> with the standard English definition, which is going to confuse Web >> developers. > > And what would you say to the Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and > other non English speakers? The Web is not the "World Wide English > Language Web". There are reason for that, and it goes back to the > subject, predicate, object triple. All the aforementioned natural > languages are notations for the same abstract language [3]. "Agent" is an English word. If we were talking about a word from another language, it would be best to use the definition from that other language as well. I believe that's the point being made here. -Dave -- Dave Longley CTO Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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