[tei-council] sluice your glosses

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 28 Feb 2013, at 17:14, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>> There is a distinction between explaining the rationale for a name, and describing the ways that the thing named should be used.
>> there is indeed. and getting into it is called "problematisation" in the trade :-}
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> The TEI is all about "problematization" of that kind. Don't say you hadn't noticed !

oh yeah. the key is knowing when to stop, though….

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>>>  And isn't it a good idea to enforce some discipline about always putting the expansion in parens at the start?
>> to be honest, no. its over-prescriptive.
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> Well, why have a structured description of elements at all then? Why not just bung it all into a rambling paragraph of text? Hey wait a minute, we could just use XHTML for that!
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yup. good idea.

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> Actually, the difference between "author" and "translator" is really rather crucuial here. Most translators I know would feel it was definitely exceeding their brief to do more than translate the text in front of them.
> 

you need to talk to internationalizers, not translators
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