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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:46:46 +0100
From: pac <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: Fw: languages in PhyloCode
>> I like that idea too, but I think that the code should >> require that one of the two languages be English because it a >> definition were published in Arabic and Chinese (for example), I >> would be absolutely unable to decipher it. After writing this text, >> but before sending it, I noticed that Phil and Pete made similar >> comments, so there seems to be a consensus on this. For the same reason, and also for the consistency and ease of use of derived database(s) my opinion is that PhyloCode should require English as obligatory. Note that I am NOT native English speaker... -- Peter A Cejchan (paleo)biologist Acad. Sci., Prague, CZ <cej at cejchan dot gli dot cas dot cz>