- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:15:30 +1000
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>, www-html@w3.org
Steven Pemberton wrote:
>> It would be quite clear to a human reading that in an article of some
>> sort that Tony Blair is the Prime Minister without any additional markup.
>
> How about if it was an article about the Dutch prime minister? Would it
> be clear to you then who it was?
Let's see:
"The Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, will today travel to..."
I think it's quite clear to a human reader that Jan is a Prime Minister.
It's not clear from that sentence which country he is from, but that
wasn't indicated in original example of Tony Blair either. However, one
can assume the sentence would be in the context of an article that would
indicate such information, or the sentence could have been written more
like either of these:
"The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende, will
today travel to..."
"The Dutch Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, will today travel
to..."
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
Received on Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:17:07 UTC