comments on the draft...

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Tue Jun 8 05:17:53 CEST 2004


> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:00 PM


> > 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.

Well, then, that suggests that the following are all equally valid and
useful:

de-1904
de-1905
de-1932
de-1968

en-1904
en-1905
etc.

But clearly de-1904 has a significance that none of the others do.



Peter Constable


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