Language attributes- what are they?

[Tex Texin]

Peter Constable wrote:
> 
> > From: Tex Texin [mailto:tex at xencraft.com]
> 
> > I would agree. But if we are talking about what constitutes language,
> date
> > format can still be considered an element of it.
> 
> I would say, only in the sense that one can make a probabalistic
> inference of date format from a language tag.

Yes, I agree. All interpretation of a document is probablistic isn't it. I
can't guarantee american spelling or grammar in an en-US document either.
People use all sorts of variations, make errors, borrow foreign words and
idioms, or wax poetic.

tex