latin versus common names
carlobal@netzero.net (Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:39:07 PST)

Iain,

You are perhaps the only person who didn't capture what I hoped would be an obvious tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to the shower of messages in this thread.

You are quite correct about how difficult (daft) it would be for us to be communicating with common names--which I never use, despite their sometimes equally colorful origins....

Carlo A. Balistrieri
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