Counting Heads
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Wed May 28 16:45:25 CEST 2003
Michael Everson scripsit:
> Does this mean that we still don't have consensus on the syntax of these
> tags?
It means that that Doug and I, at least, are rapidly approaching it;
he agrees on the principle Language-Script-Orthography, and is only
disputing the details of exactly what counts as a language, which is
well known to be an intractable problem at the margin.
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