[Glorantha] Linguistic nitpicking (note e-mail address in sig)

[Carl Fink]

David Weihe <blerg2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It is quite consequential.  When they started developing "scientific"
> names for everything, the English used Latin or Greek because they were
> different enough from common speech that they had no connotations, let
> alone denotations.  Therefore, Latin or Greek are entirely out.

Actually Latin and Greek were used because what was thought to be happening
was a rebirth ("Renaissance") of Roman and Greek scholarship.  Primary
sources were people like Plato and Pliny, so their languages remained
dominant.
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Carl Fink                                     nitpicking at nitpicking.com
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