comments on the draft...

[John Cowan]

Peter Constable scripsit:

> I'm concerned with the semantics. For instance, what do we say "1904"
> means? Somewhere, we need to say, "the German spelling conventions
> established in 1904". 

What about a broader interpretation, such as "orthography as of 1904"?
True, this may not be very useful for anything but de, but at least it's
meaningful.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan at reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
"It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon. 
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again.  It's a classic tale."  --Kryten, Red Dwarf