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Michael Kay schrieb am 08.08.2009 um 00:42:48 (+0100): > > With the exception of "<!CDATA[" (which, just like the > > comment delimiters, looks suspiciously DTD-ish to me), these > > words can't be easily pronounced. > > Well, I've only dabbled in linguistics in a very amateurish way, but > I've never seen anyone maintain that an essential property of a > language is that its words must be pronouncable. (Pronouncable by > whom?) Well, Wilhelm von Humboldt, considering the vocal origins of all principal human languages, defines dialogue, or dialogicity, as the essence of language; and pronounceability is certainly a prerequisite for vocal dialogue. Modern linguistics seem to have based a lot of their concepts on the written word and the formal grammar, preferring structure to origin; and of course I'll admit that this is much more applicable to XML than Humboldt. Also, my comment wasn't 100% serious. Still, I think syntax is a better match for XML than language. Regards, Michael Ludwig
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