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- From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
- Subject: Re: Strata annotation
- Message-ID: <leo.721992233@galaxy>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <1992Nov16.121702.24736@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:23:53 GMT
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- S_INTELMANN@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Intelmann Rederik) writes:
-
- > By the way, in Botany there's a so-called priority-rule for
- > naming species, saying that the oldest scientific name of a
- > species is to be used in systematics. Generously applied to the
- > APF it would mean we'd have to use the name "shand-latin"
- > instead of "dog-latin", since Strata is older than Moving
- > Pictures...
-
- May be, but fake latin is of course not something that Terry has
- invented himself. (I always thought the usual name for it was
- pig-latin, but perhaps I'm mistaken)
-
- In fact, it is not confined to the English language either. In Dutch
- for instance I know there are entire family names consisting of a
- 'latinized' version of a normal Dutch word, e.g. a man named 'Vos' who
- starts calling himself 'Vossius', because it sounds fancier...
-
- Anyway, the reason that I use 'dog-latin' in the APF is because Terry
- calls it that in his own articles.
-
- --
- Leo Breebaart (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
-