Subspecies

[Guy Van de Poel]

>(snip). Latinizing the locality
>name would defeat the purpose--which is to make the location of the popu-
>lation instantly accessible to everyone.


Latin was used as the standard language because it was the only language
many scientists had in common. Standards are good, if the circonstances in
which they are employed do not change. But in the mean time, English has
become the most used language in science (internationally I mean), but only
in writing. English itself is splitting up into several dialects, and I've
worked with Brits, which, especially in the North, speak something that you
can hear is related to English, but is completely incomprehensible. Others,
like Norbert Kondla, try to evolutionise the written language (or did your
caps key disappear ;-), so this will not be a standard for much longer
either.
So, if you would all learn Flemish, I wouldn't have that much difficulties
any more ...

Guy.

Guy Van de Poel
Guy_VdP at t-online.de

Royal Entomological Society of Antwerp
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