<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 29 Aug 2008, at 01:05, Mark Davis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, adding the year is not the right answer. If people want a tag that is obscured, we might as well use 'akad1234'; we shouldn't use a year because there is no intention of *excluding* other years.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The year does not "exclude" other years. It refers to a particular orthography, defined in a particular source or set of sources. The year is not calendrical.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">"be" means *ANY* "be", tarask or akademic, whatever year. In order to specify the academy version and only the academy version (not including tarask), we have to have a tag.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since there is more than one academy version the requirement is for greater precision. We went over this at very great length when we dealt with older orthographies for French, and in my judgement the principles we agreed there should apply here.</div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>