- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:59:21 +0000
- To: "Loretta Guarino Reid" <lorettaguarino@google.com>, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
- Cc: dev-accessibility@lists.mozilla.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Loretta Guarino Reid asked, quote: > Could we consider changing it in the spec so it isn't misspelled? unquote aloha, loretta! while i've questioned in the past why some spellings in the ARIA documents conform to en-us and others to en-gb, especially since the W3C Technical Report Publication Policy (a.k.a. Pubrules) http://www.w3.org/2005/07/pubrules declares that the normative natural language definition for W3C publications is en-us... the specification syntax has been a topic of discussion (such as labeledby versus labelledby -- one is the preferred spelling in en-us, whilst the other is the preferred spelling in en-gb) -- and the ARIA drafts reflect those individual decisions... however, a request that ARIA syntax use the conventions of a single consistent natural language wouldn't be (in my opinion) an outlandish request and would do much to auto-answer syntax spelling questions by reference to the natural language declaration, en-us -- on the other hand, ALL early adapters of ARIA would have to comprehensively review their application's code to ensure that their syntax conforms with the "new" syntax, which is an argument for keeping the terminal "e" spelling as the normative spelling in any case, descendent is a viable, accepted spelling of the adjectival form of the verb "to descend" -- in particular, descending, as in going down, or descending from an ancestor -- consult: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/descendent also, compare the following two definitions: * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendent * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant gregory. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html UBATS: United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs: http://ubats.org -----------------------------------------------------------------
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