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