Posted by John Hosking on 01/02/07 17:36

Toby Inkster wrote:

>
> A lot of people [...

incredibly fascinating monologue about political and lingual
identification (unrelated to HTML) snipped

>
> ...] are Castillian, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Aranese. [...

remarkable display of detailed knowledge regarding Iberian linguistics
(irrelevant to markup of Web content) excised

....]
> On the third hand, you may want to use this list to identify people's
> culture or heritage. In which case again, you are way off. For example,
> Jewish people in many different countries may wish to state their culture
> as "Jewish"; indigenous Australians may wish to state their culture as
> "Aborigine" or "Torres Strait Islander" rather than "Australian", or may
> even wish to describe themselves as belonging to a particular Aboriginal
> group, such as the Eora. (Most of the Aboriginal words ...]

continued Ganesh-limbed discussion of cultural and quasi-anthropological
trickiness and a recommendation to let ISO standards come to the rescue
(not necessarily using HTML) trimmed


....] can also speak Catalan.)
>

Toby: How do you *know* these things? <8-O

Fascinating post.

--
John
Can name the cast members of the original "Star Trek" series and sing
the theme song from "Gilligan's Island" (both versions).

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