Latin and What is important to ask What is the most spoken / used SECOND language...

[ricardo]

Dear taxonomists,

>>A note yesterday (I think it was from John McNeill) said the new propos=
al
is that a description in two modern languages be valid.<<

I have feelning that there some major mistakes is in proposal like use
sentences:
>>modern langueage<<
>> the most spoken language<< etc.

one of most spoken language is chinese, but how many entomologists use
chinese as SECOND language?
Who can read and translate chinese entomological description? Not ordinar=
y
chinese people, who do not know entomological symbols!! I had description=
 of
an tenebrionid beetle done by chinese language by prof. Jing and no one f=
rom
fourteens chonese what I was able to contact was able to do... They was
fluent in cantonese, mandarin etc.,  they speak very well english... but
they cannot read entomological chinese language...

What is important to ask What is the most spoken / used SECOND language...

But many chinese speak esperanto... why not to describe in latin or
esperanto...

Keep care and be of good cheer.

Regards

(name) Vratislav Richard Eugene Maria John Baptiste
(surname) of Bejsak (Bayshark)-Collorado-Mansfeld

Coleoptera - Australia, Tenebrionidae of World
(incl. Lagriinae, Alleculinae)

University of Sydney
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Datum: Saturday, February 27, 1999 10:54 PM
P=F8edm=ECt: Latin


>>    I have never heard any American / Englishman pronounce English
>>  correctly, the way it would have been pronounced by Mr. Shakespeare.
>
>Two points: 1) Of all the many dialects of present-day English, the
>one which most nearly approximates that of Shakespeare
>is found in Newfoundland, Canada. 2) Why is this dialect "correct"
>while others are not? What is so special about the early 17th
>Century?
>
>>  Moreover, the Latin names pronounced in English (in American?) sound
quite
>>  differently in Louisiana and Maryland. Maybe, Californian pronounciat=
ion
is
>>  the only correct one? Let us discuss this.
>
>Please see my other posting yesterday, sent after yours.
>Louisiana pronunciation is "correct" in Louisiana because
>Louisianan need to communicate with other Louisianians. A
>Boston accent is likewise proper in Boston. There is no
>distinctly California accent, because the majority of
>Californians are immigrants from other parts of the country
>or children of such immigrants since World War II.
>   I have no easy access to the journal Taxon, nor could I
>decipher the coded message distributed yesterday. I have
>one question for those proposing replacing Latin
>with modern languages: A note yesterday (I think it was
>from John McNeill) said the new proposal is that a
>description in two modern languages be valid.
>I hope there is some limitation put on which languages
>are so permitted. A publication, for example, in Hopi and
>Yoruba will do few people any good. I would suggest the
>following list:
>
>English
>French
>German
>Russian
>Portugese
>Chinese
>Arabic
>
>--
>Dr. Joseph E. Laferriere
>"Computito ergo sum ...  I link therefore I am."
>