[Taxacom] pronunciation of Latin, concluding remarks

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

From: "Pekka T. Lehtinen" <pekleh at utu.fi>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:22 PM

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1. The Codes are MAINLY created for regulation of written text, but as 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF ORGANISMS are by definition either Latin words or 
Latinized words of variable origin, [...]

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This, anyway, is not true. Scientific names of organisms need not
be Latin (the generic name Ginkgo being the well-known example).
They "are treated as Latin", but need not be Latin.

Paul