Re: [wolfrunners] Languages & SF/F (fwd)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Seems to me a lot of plants in English have common names that don't have
>anything to do with their biological genus/species classifications anyway.
This is why when I talk about plants elsewhere I give the Latin name if I
can. Common names are really a bad thing to use to ask about things like
plants, because often, more than one plant has the same name (such as
"lime" it can refer to the linden, or Tilia (IIRC), or the citrus)





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