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Re: lang attribute for foreign words found in Merriam Webster's dictionary?

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From: _mallory
Date: Apr 23, 2015 12:25AM

If for example en_USer's pronounce foreign-but-adopted words
differently than how the native speaker would, I would
explicitly avoid adding the language markup, if it's likely
the host language speaker would not recognise the correct
pronounciation of the word.

Then again, maybe adding the lang attributes would count as
a "learning opportunity". My father said to his grave
"horse doovers".

_mallory