pronunciation
bulborum botanicum (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:12:19 PDT)
This is exactly what I do and where I think the latin names are made for
If I have a Chinese or somebody who I don't understand looking for a special
plant
I ask him to write down the name and I know most of the time where they are
talking about
and the rest from this whole discussion is just for a few ??????
Roland
2010/7/27 J.E. Shields <jshields@indy.net>
So it's small wonder that Botanical Latin begins to seem a bit like Ben's
description of English -- it seems to be a language defined by a committee!
Peter Smithers used to say that Botanical Latin is a written language
rather than a spoken language. So we are on our own, it seems.
Jim Shields
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