Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux

Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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On 24 February 2017 at 03:09, Kent Karlsson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Den 2017-02-22 22:35, skrev "Michael Everson" <[email protected]>:
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>> la-DE-linnaeus would probably give a different result from la-US-linnaeus.
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> This idea seems to conflate country ("region") with language. Though a
> common mistake, not one that "we" should make...

True. I wonder what accent la-CH-linnaeus and la-BE-linnaeus would
have, for example.

Cheers,
Philip
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