Re: [Ltru] Updated draft-4646bis...

On 21 Jul 2007, at 05:59, scríobh Randy Presuhn:

> ...
> No, "is" is grammatically correct.

True.

> However, the sentence *is* odd.

I agree.

> Wordsmiths might consider are paraphrase:

I do not understand the previous line. Perhaps it is missing a word  
or two.

> For example,  a tag such as "ar-Cyrl-CO" (Arabic, as used in Columbia,
>    written using Cyrillic script) is valid but not likely to be  
> useful, since the
>   combination of attributes it employs are not likely to occur  
> together in
>   actual language use.

I find 2 occurrences of "unlikely" better than the 2 of "not likely"  
which Randy suggests above (to replace the original text of 1 "not  
likely" and I "unlikely" in same sentence), but this point is hardly  
worth the candle, as attempts to clean up the English have been  
largely abandoned, or else sparked too much debate.

However, here goes with one more attempt:

"For example, although a tag such as 'ar-Cyrl-CO' (Arabic, as used in  
Columbia,
written in Cyrillic script) is valid, it is [most] unlikely to be of  
use, because
such combination of attributes is unlikely to occur in actual  
language use."

mg

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