[cowan at mercury.ccil.org: Re: suppress-script values for fil, mi, pes, prs, qu members]
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Oct 22 16:26:54 CEST 2010
Michael Everson scripsit:
>> Even if this is so, S-S is also mutable: we can add it to or remove
>> it from either the macrolanguage or the encompassed languages at will,
>> as new information comes to light.
>
> Isn't this a stability problem?
Yes, but correctness trumps stability here. We knew we would occasionally
make the wrong decision based on incomplete evidence, as with Wolof.
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