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Re: Another attempt at plain language

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 11 September 2015 19:35 UTC

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Shawn Steele scripsit:

> Hmm, I'll have to digest that... If it's intended to help the
> accessibility guidelines, then there's no real guarantee that it is
> indeed appropriately written as tagged.

There is no guarantee that something tagged "de" is really written in German,
either (indeed, Google routinely ignores the tag "en", because it is plonked
on all sorts of pages).  It's about authorial intent, as I posted before.

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