I think Torsten hits the nail on the head, at least in clarifying my 
contribution to the discussion.  At the Newton Project, we haven't 
(yet) introduced the <subst> tag, but I can see why it would be 
useful.  In the case of manuscripts, del/add seem to me the right way 
to encode the children of <subst>, but in the case of oral 
transcripts, orig/reg or corr/sic make more sense.  That said, I have 
no experience at all of transcribing oral sources so perhaps I should 
leave the discussion to people who have.

John

Quoting Torsten Schassan <[log in to unmask]>:

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> Hi all,
> 
> > In transcribing speech for the BNC we had lots of arguments about
> the
> > need to distinguish normalization from correction. For example:
> > 
> > 1) you're transcribing a speech in which someone says "couldn't
> of"
> > (people do) and you'd like to correct/normalise this to "couldn't
> have"
> > 2) in the transcript someone else made, you think they mis-heard
> > "couldn't have" as "couldn't of" (or vice versa)
> > 
> > The first is a case for <reg> and <orig>. The second is a case for
> > <sic>  and <corr>
> 
> my understanding was so far:
> - - for what is "in the source", use <subst> with sic/corr or
> orig/reg
> pairs as children,
> - - for what is editorial intervention use <choice> with sic/corr or
> orig/reg pairs as children.
> 
> For what Gabriel said, was true in the age of print respectively
> still
> is if the output media is print. But what John said in my opinion is
> very much true either, for electronic publication. While in print we
> didn't have "modi" to visualize both, one had to arrange things on
> the
> page, in electronic media this is substituted by different modi,
> displaying either the original versions (sic, orig etc) or the
> normalized/corrected.
> 
> Best, Torsten
> 
> - --
> Torsten Schassan
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