Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Yury Tarasievich <[email protected]>
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On 23/02/17 20:45, Doug Ewell wrote: ... > Where I think we are running into disagreement, or miscommunication, is > the question of whether this is a "language" or not. Languages have > grammars and different parts of speech that can be used to express a > very wide range of content. You cannot say "Hello, Andy" or "Is it sunny > outside?" or "God save the Queen" or "Ouch!" using taxonomical > nomenclature. To many of us, it is a system of labels, a very flexible > and useful and well-known one, but not a "language". Well... Any language is a system of labels (pointing to mental models), actually. )) What's the problem with having a tag for that taxonomy thing? That's a highly specialised language, Latin-derived. And when there'll happen a Wikipedia in it, we'll see all sorts of "hello andies". -Yury _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages