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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 02 September 2015 22:07 UTC

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Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> Isn't the described use of 'plain' very similar to the grandfathered
> tag "i-default"?

I-default requires that at least the most important part of the content
be in English.  "de-simple" can be pure German.

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