[tei-council] comments on CH from Brett Zamir

[Gabriel BODARD]

Lou's Laptop a écrit :
> 1) In referring to written and spoken human language, might I suggest 
> also referring to "signed" language (for which textual representation 
> 
> [I see no harm in adding this reference here, tho neither do I see any 
> necessity for it:  LB]

Well, if it is the third form of language system (are speaking, writing, 
signing really the only three possible ways to communicate text?) then 
the benefit ("necessity" being a rather strict stipulation) is in not 
leaving out a real part of our potential user-base.

I suppose it could be argued that all language encoded in TEI must be 
written, at least in transcription, for the tags to be applied. (Unless 
we're talking about stand-off markup applied to audio data like the AMI 
Meeting Corpus.)

G


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