[Taxacom] Language tags for scientific names

[Curtis Clark]

On 2008-06-28 12:12, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> You're quite right. What verbs are used in, say ICBN?

"Publish", for example. Although pronounced the same as in English, its 
meaning is different. You may scoff, but talk to a student trying to 
learn ICBN first.

>> As far as "fluency", you'll hardly find a higher concentration than at 
>> Taxacom.
> 
> OK. Please translate your previous post into ICBN.

Translate it into Klingon. Or Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, for that matter. Not every 
language is suitable to every task.

Rather than continue to debate whether the variants of Latin introduced 
by the different codes are or are not languages, please explain what you 
find so objectionable about the proposal to subdivide a scientific-name 
language tag?

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