Language attributes- what are they?

[John Cowan]

Tex Texin scripsit:

> It seems to me the document is an Icelandic or English document which contains
> some Old Norse text. Alternatively, we can tag the Norse text as Old Norse
> separately from the sorted index tagged as Icelandic.

How could the anglophone-directed version be an English document?
It doesn't contain a word of English!  Just the ON text and its sorted
index (or maybe concordance is a better term).

> If an author writes for an audience, the content is presumably in the language
> of the audience, even if there are elements which are in another language.

Not if *all* of it is in another language.  If I prepare an edition of Plato
in Greek, then it's in Greek, even if I intend it for my anglophone students.
(Hypothetical example.)

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