[Taxacom] Latin anyone?

[Karl Magnacca]

At 1:06 PM -1000 10/15/10, Neal Evenhuis wrote:
> At 12:33 PM -1000 10/15/10, Richard Zander wrote:
>>Are all exotic language taxonomists now publishing their new names
>>in English, in your experience? Maybe they are.
>
> There are a few Europeans that still publish in their home country
> language, but as far as I can tell, most, if not all, non-roman
> alphabet languages have a "western" language diagnosis if not the
> entire description.

In my (limited) experience, it seems like the bigger problem for
English-only speakers is German - compared to the other ones
mentioned by Richard there are more descriptions published
exclusively in it, and automated translators don't handle it very
well.

Karl
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Karl Magnacca
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Hawaii-Hilo