comments on the draft...

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Jun 11 09:42:18 CEST 2004



--On 7. juni 2004 21:00 -0400 John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> 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.

now, if German spelling reform was introduced on June 1, 1904, does "1904" 
mean the Jan 1, 1904 spelling or the Dec 31, 1904 spelling?

precision is your friend.






More information about the Ietf-languages mailing list