[tei-council] Minor changes in ND

[Arianna Ciula]

I don't have strong feelings about this.

In my notes from the London meeting I have:
population --> problematic concept, more of a state.

But what Matthew is saying makes also sense...

Arianna

Matthew James Driscoll wrote:
> I remember (I think -- it's reached that stage) discussing this in London.
> My inclination would be, has been, to think of population as a trait, like
> location and climate, analogous to height, weight and hair-colour for
> person, all of which can change over time, but not usually as the result of
> an event: I stress the "usually" -- I know populations can be halved or
> doubled overnight, even has people's hair can go white quite suddenly, but
> it's not the usual situation.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Wittern [mailto:cwittern at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:51 PM
> To: Arianna Ciula
> Cc: TEI Council
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] Minor changes in ND
> 
> On 10/10/2007, Arianna Ciula <arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> - Is <population> a state or a trait of a place? The prose says it's a
>>> state, the schema that it's a trait. It's less work to change the
>>> former, so that's what I did.
>> I would say it is a state, so good you have changed the prose.
>>
> 
> But wasn't the change in the other direction?  To me it would also
> rather seem a state, since presumably we are talking about the number
> of inhabitants at a certain point in time.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 

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