[Taxacom] ICBN (orthography of geographical epithets)

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

> On 2007-02-13 01:46, Paul van Rijckevorsel wrote:
>> That would depend on how "sentence" and "phrase" are defined. The first
>> three dictionaries I consulted do not require a verb in a sentence.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Clark" <jcclark-lists at earthlink.net>
> en.wikipedia has an article, but a lot of its specifics are about
> English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_%28linguistics%29

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Well, the first dictionary I consulted (for American English) used this
definition for sentence:
"1. Meaningful linguistic unit, a group of words or a single word that
expresses a complete thought, feeling, or idea"

which makes sense: "Damn.","Like hell.", "In a pig's eye." look like quite
acceptable examples of sentences to me. Certainly I have plenty of books
that contain such sentences.

Q: What do you call this?
A: Lilium martagon.
Q: What a beautiful flower!

This looks like a quite respectable conversation of three sentences to me. I
prefer "sentence" over "phrase" as sentences start with a capital letter,
which is just what I would like the user of a botanical name to do (rather
than no capitals at all, or every word capitalized).

Paul