Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>
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On 22 February 2017 at 21:31, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > "Which language are taxonomic names "divisions or variations within"? As I noted all those years ago, they're not Latin, and not English.” > > Then you’re not looking for a subtag. That won’t fly. The subtag suggestion was Doug Ewell's; I asked, initially (in 2003) for "a language code for marking up the taxonomic names of living things",, and in my first post on this thread, for "suggestions as to how [how to indicate the language of these names] might finally be resolved". > They are Latin. Adjectives are expected to conform to gender endings for Latin. From the Wikipedia: > >> The second part of a binomial may be an adjective. The adjective must agree with the genus name in gender If I invent some words that use English grammar, does that make them part of the English language? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages