Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Arthur Reutenauer < [email protected]> wrote: > > It has rules for words yet non-existing, and so is assuredly beyond the > > vocabulary, which is a mere collection of existing words. > > Yes: the rules of Latin. > Well, not quite: the letters "v" and "w" are distinct in Linnaean Latin, which is not the case in other Latin varieties, and as I noted earlier, anglicisms like "ck" are permitted in Linnaean Latin but would be spelled "cc" in earlier Latin. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves. --Murray Gell-Mann _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages