Message 2005-12-0007: Re: Minor Rewordings of Article 7?

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:42:43 +0200

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:42:43 +0200
From: [unknown]
To: PML <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: Minor Rewordings of Article 7?

>> As for "pronounceable", I would ask pronounceable for whom?
>
> I read it as "pronounceable for somebody" (e.g., "pronounceable for
> the author"). If it were limited to "pronounceable for everyone", a=
ll
> taxonomic names would sound like baby babble. Turning, e.g., _Homo
> sapiens_ into "Gubu dabina" is impractical and unnecessary.

Just for the fun of nitpicking, even this wouldn't work for really ev=
eryone.=20
There are languages without any labials such as b, p and m, and there=
 are=20
languages without any nasals such as m and n.=20

  

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