On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Alistair Vining wrote:

> Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>>
>> I've made a suggestion to him regarding the XML grammar. It should 
>> look
>> something like this instead:
>>
>> <barbarism word="tamany">
>
> Is there no better word than 'barbarism'?  This usage in English is 
> very rare, and
> implies that there's something morally wrong with the word...

It's the proper linguistic term. And the users will never see this XML 
file. I doubt that they'll run into many moral issues with an XML 
grammar they'll never see.

Dom

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