Just as an aside, the UofMn English Dept. already offers courses that
deal with various markup languages and how they can be used in terms of
preservation of texts, production of new texts, etc etc. The people involved
with that work would love to be able to send e-mail in 16th century English
to each other. I'd be willing to bet money on that.
But they already can! They can compose it in their favorite 16th
century wordprocessor and send it as an application/xxxxx mime
message.
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam
<Guido(_dot_)van(_dot_)Rossum(_at_)cwi(_dot_)nl>