Language for taxonomic names, redux

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Wed Mar 1 19:44:13 CET 2017


I doubt that anybody that would plan to use this subtag — whatever it is — will have difficulty figuring out how to spell it.


Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:55 AM
To: Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com>
Cc: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion <ietf-languages at iana.org>
Subject: Re: Language for taxonomic names, redux


> On 1 Mar 2017, at 10:27, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As I mentioned in passing before, '-linne' is easier to spell than 
> '-linnaeus' (did I get that right... ;-).

But 1) no one but Swedes will know Linné and 2) Linne is a misspelling for Linné. Come on. You know me by now. ;-)

ME
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