In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:

In particular, some names specify multiple species simultaneously,
others vary with location, some specify varieties or subspecies,
and some overlap those. English is imprecise. Live with it.

Often, too often, English is modified by the illiterate and the
ignorant. I shall not live with it - I shal live despite it.

Accepted. I have got crustier and more pedantic in my old age,
and have little truck with the Victorian revisionism of the language.

Marestail and samphire are fine. If you want to be specifically
precise, use the proper language, which is Latin.

Proper?

You have a good point. Linnaeus was remarkably vulgar at times.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

wrote:
In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:
In particular, some names specify multiple species simultaneously,
others vary with location, some specify varieties or subspecies,
and some overlap those. English is imprecise. Live with it.
Often, too often, English is modified by the illiterate and the
ignorant. I shall not live with it - I shal live despite it.

Accepted. I have got crustier and more pedantic in my old age,
and have little truck with the Victorian revisionism of the language.

Marestail and samphire are fine. If you want to be specifically
precise, use the proper language, which is Latin.
Proper?

You have a good point. Linnaeus was remarkably vulgar at times.

Ah, part of the vulgar fraction...

If I'm absent for longish periods it's because my Vogonfone notwork
keeps going pointythings-up.

I thought it was the dongle dying, but found that two separate dongles
showed the same symptoms (pointythings-up) and later, both worked.

--
Rusty

In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:

If I'm absent for longish periods it's because my Vogonfone notwork
keeps going pointythings-up.

I thought it was the dongle dying, but found that two separate dongles
showed the same symptoms (pointythings-up) and later, both worked.

Well, what do you expect if you use something computeroid?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

wrote:
In article ,
Rusty Hinge wrote:
If I'm absent for longish periods it's because my Vogonfone notwork
keeps going pointythings-up.

I thought it was the dongle dying, but found that two separate dongles
showed the same symptoms (pointythings-up) and later, both worked.

Well, what do you expect if you use something computeroid?

Are you suggesting that computers are fallible?

Perish the - er - processor...

--
Rusty