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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 20 June 2007 00:38 UTC

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To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: extlang
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Peter Constable scripsit:

> Is there a possibility of an encompassed language getting changed not to
> be encompassed? If "xxx" is a macrolanguage and "yyy" an encompassed
> "microlanguage" (to use Mark's term), I could perhaps see "xxx"
> getting deprecated, but "yyy" getting dissociated from "xxx"? It
> really shouldn't happen: there should have been *some* good reason
> for associated "yyy" with "xxx" in the first place, and that shouldn't
> go away.

Human error would be the obvious candidate.  "Oh, we thought Foovian
was part of the Slobbovian macrolanguage, but that was because Dr. X
put the wrong code on the form back in 2008."

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