Re: Translation opportunity (was: Conorthography aesthetics)

At 06:33 16/09/03, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:


>For some reason it's not known in Latin.  The all too obvious *Unicodus
>is rather infantile.  Why make it masculine? And why 2nd declension?
>
>  I notice the majority of languages simply leave it as Unicode; and there
>are good examples from all periods of Latin, including the classical
>period,
>of just adopting an obviously foreign word as it stands and treating it as
>an indeclinable neuter noun.  Or one could bring the silent 'e' to life, so
>to speak, and have 'Unicode' /u:niko:de/ as a 3rd declension neuter.
>
>Umm- maybe the latter?
Hm, _code_ is etymologically from _codex_, which suggests Unicodex,
Unicodicis.  Which I like, though semantically _code_ is now sufficently
removed from _codex_ that I'm not sure this is a good idea.

Ian

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