comments on the draft - 2

[Tex Texin]

Thanks for interCeding Doug.

It was clear I was teasing right?

So do we need a language tag for Duff-speak? en-Duff?
(I am sooo tomorrow!)
;-)

Doug Ewell wrote:
> 
> Tex Texin <tex at xencraft dot com> wrote:
> 
> > Ahh, yet another example of a dead and obsolete standard (Latin)
> > continuing to impact modern software development. Must we go back to
> > concepts from 300BC, which haven't been lingua franca anywhere since
> > 1300, as guidance for 2004 documents?
> 
> Because the word is spelled "superseded."  This is about correct
> spelling, not software development.
> 
> Compare Bernard Rafael Miller's Bytext "standard," in which, in a frenzy
> to be "modern" and not constrained by old-fashioned legacy standards, he
> declared "tho," "thru," and "who" to be acceptable spelling variants of
> "though," "through," and "whom."
> 
> > Instead of "superseded" why don't we use more modern spelling and
> > wording, for example: "totally 5 minutes ago".
> > (Given recent reuse of tags, it seems more apt doesn't it?)
> >
> > I propose:
> >
> > 'Tags like "zh-Hant" and "en-boont" be marked as "totally 5 minutes
> > ago".'
> 
> Or maybe:
> 
> 'Tags like "zh-Hant" and "en-boont" be marked as "so yesterday".'
> 
> That might lead us into an IP-rights discussion with Hilary Duff's
> agents, though.
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> 
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