Re: Barbarism implementation proposal

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 17:28:04 EDT

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    On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Alistair Vining wrote:

    > Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >>
    >> I've made a suggestion to him regarding the XML grammar. It should
    >> look
    >> something like this instead:
    >>
    >> <barbarism word="tamany">
    >
    > Is there no better word than 'barbarism'? This usage in English is
    > very rare, and
    > implies that there's something morally wrong with the word...

    It's the proper linguistic term. And the users will never see this XML
    file. I doubt that they'll run into many moral issues with an XML
    grammar they'll never see.

    Dom

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