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John Cowan wrote: [[ Jonathan Borden scripsit: > > Sure, but that doesn't make façade *wrong*. Are you going to say that > > <text>His attitude is a mere façade</text> must not validate against > > a database library with a "text-en" datatype? > > > > I suppose that if I went to the trouble to specify "text-en" that I probably > wouldn't want that to validate. But why not? It is unquestionably an English sentence, even if one of the words in it has an unusual orthography. ]] I thought we agreed that validating according to "text-en" wasn't a reliable way to determine whether that character sequence is an "English sentence"? My impression is that this sort of test is simply a way to see if a particular character sequence consists only of characters in a given set of characters. I am tempted to define what I expect "text-en" to specify is something like the set of characters learned in (an American or English) school as belonging to the "English alphabet" -- by "school" I mean a grade school, not a graduate school. Jonathan
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