John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas B. Passin scripsit:
>
> > Oh, no problem, "facade" is an allowable form according to my
dictionary.
>
> Sure, but that doesn't make façade *wrong*. Are you going to say that
> <text>His attitude is a mere façade</text> must not validate against
> a database library with a "text-en" datatype?
>
I suppose that if I went to the trouble to specify "text-en" that I probably
wouldn't want that to validate. Come to think of it, the French would
probably pay good money to obtain a reliable validator that fails on words
that smack of English, so that pattern * - text-en (or something akin) might
become quite popular :-))
Jonathan
