[Taxacom] ICBN (orthography of geographical epithets)

[Richard Jensen]

Seems to me that you are both saying the same thing, except that Curtis 
wants the verbs to be explicit while Paul allows implicit verbs, etc. 
Paul's brief conversation, stated explicitly, would look something like 
this:

What do you call this?
It is called Lilium martagon.
What a beautiful flower it is.

The words I have added (other variations are certainly possible) are 
implicit in Paul's conversation.

Enough?

Cheers,

Dick J

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-284-4674



Paul van Rijckevorsel wrote:
>> 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
>>     
>
> ***
> 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
>
>
>
>
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