From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
> On 06/15/2001 06:29:51 PM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote:
> >Why be more specific then there are a lot of people who think they might
> >possibly have made TOO MUCH normative and do not want to make things
> >unchangeable that might be in error or might need to change later?
>
> But normative explicitly does *not* mean unchangeable.
It quite specifically means that others can use it and reference it. Anyone
knows you cannot build a house on a shifting foundation, which is why making
something "normative" should be something reserved for things that one is
*not* going to change.
michka
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