Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux
Kent Karlsson <[email protected]>
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Den 2017-03-01 22:11, skrev "Michael Everson" <[email protected]>: > Nobody spells Carl¹s name as Linneus. It shouldn't, but happens anyway. Esp. if it is someone not used to write that name, like, say, a programmer (programming language tag insertion software)... But also but also people who "should know better". > There¹s a couple of towns in America Not what I was referring to. > that use that spelling, but that's not the scientist¹s name. His proper name (after ennoblement) was Carl von Linné. And at that point even some of his works used the Latinised version "Carolus a Linné". https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9#Namn: "På de flesta av hans publikationer använde han den latiniserade formen Carolus Linnæus (som brukade stå i genitiv, alltså Caroli Linnæi). Efter att han adlats 1757, tog han namnet Carl von Linné. På några av publikationerna latiniserades detta i sin tur till Carolus a Linné." /Kent K _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages