Re: Translation of working draft "Specifying Language in XHTML and HTML Content"

Richard Ishida wrote:
> 'Natural language' is, in my vocabulary, a standard English term referring
> to non-programmatic languages. See
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=natural%20language , and not just
> those that have native speakers. At Cambridge I studied 'natural language
> processing'.
>
> I will add '(human)' in parentheses to make this clearer for speakers whose
> native language is not English.
>   
I won't "vote" for this solution. I think that 'natural language' means 
perfectly what is required to understand, especially for people already 
having had something to do with computers. In stead of adding (human), I 
suggest, eventually,  that you add the explanation you just gave above 
(something like "human, non-programmatic languages... as defined in 
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=natural%20language...") the 
first time the expression 'natural language' appears in he document.

Najib
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: www-international-request@w3.org 
>> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Christophe Strobbe
>> Sent: 12 March 2007 12:03
>> To: www-international@w3.org
>> Cc: w3c-translators@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Translation of working draft "Specifying 
>> Language in XHTML and HTML Content"
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At 20:09 9/03/2007, CE Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi, when I emailed you before requesting to translate the working 
>>> draft, "Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in 
>>> XHTML & HTML Content"
>>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20060721/)
>>> I was told not to translate a working draft as such was subject to 
>>> change; then in another discussion someone mentioned that 
>>>       
>> links to such 
>>     
>>> translations were welcome through the email at the 
>>>       
>> discussion list for 
>>     
>>> the working draft.
>>>
>>> (...)
>>> Also a question about "the natural language of the 
>>>       
>> content"--what other 
>>     
>>> languages are used in the content?  So this was really a 
>>>       
>> question about 
>>     
>>> wording; thought "natural" was redundant here.)
>>>       
>> This refers to "human language", as opposed to computer 
>> languages, so "natural" is not redundant, although I find it 
>> a misnomer [1].
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2007JanM
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> ar/0028.html
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