Re: EAK numerals (reply-to corrected!)

On 8/30/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
>
> > That brings to mind binomial biological names in Greek, which are
> > formed that way TTBOMK; a hypothetical big-eyed camel, _Camelus
> > megalops_, would be κάμηλος η μεγάλωψ. I don't think I've come across
> > it anywhere else, though.
>
> Er? Linnean binominals are inviolable*, remaining in the Latin script no matter
> the script of the surrounding text. A name written in Greek letters is ipso
> facto not a biological binomial.
Ah, I must have been misremembering, then.

I imagine I meant common names such as, in English, "big-eyed camel"
(adjective-noun) and got distracted because binomial names are often
similar (general noun, specifying adjective), and by the fact that
such adjective-noun combinations seem more "scholarly" to me than
words such as "duck, goose, pig, whale".

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>