Proposed new record for 'wadegile'

[Michael Everson]

On 28 Sep 2008, at 03:10, Doug Ewell wrote:

> They mean what you suspect, that Randy proposes to remove (e.g.) the  
> string ", typically" with the empty string, thus deleting the content.

To which I would have to say "No.".

>>> .s/and/which/
>>> .s/'/' /
>>
>> I have no idea what you mean by this.
>
> The same: replace the passage between the first and second slashes by
> the passage between the second and third.

Sensible editing practice for humans:

For

"in the romanization developed by Thomas Wade in the mid-19th century,  
and reached settled form with Herbert Giles'Chinese-English dictionary"

read

"in the romanization developed by Thomas Wade in the mid-19th century,  
which reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English  
dictionary"

OK.

>> Mayhap, but the quotation comes from Krieger, Neill, and Reynolds  
>> 1997
>> so they are responsible for its content.
>
> Agreed.  Mark put quotes around the passage and that lets us off the
> hook.

Actually the quotation isn't essential at all and could just be cut.

>

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com