[pbs] pbs Digest, Vol 65, Issue 23 the dipthongs "oe" and "ae"
Adam Fikso
adam14113 at ameritech.net
Sun Jun 22 14:01:12 EDT 2008
Just to add a bit. This is probably not only a shift in commonplace Latin
and Greek being transferred to and memorialized in botanic nomenclature and
church writings, but the result of handwritten manuscripts, poor vision,
poor lighting, poor printing, poor transportation with resulting isolation
of one community from another, but the lack of any centralized authority to
appeal to for correction. It's partly why your 4th grade teacher (U. S.
residents only?) wanted you to improve your penmanship, and why in some
schools there was a Spencerian model of the entire alphabet (upper and
lower-case examples) up in front of the class over the blackboard every day
of the year.
So we now have an international nomenclatural authority (in science), a
better-educated populace (viz. this outstanding group), and we can talk,
read, and write about this stuff and send it around and marvel at one
another's repositories of not-so-useful information . If anybody wants, I
can even refer any interested parties to a calligrapher who works with
medieval colors and parchment if need be. And...some days, this forum is
a needed antidote and anodyne to the rest of the world's miseries. Cheers to
all. Adam in Glenview, IL USDA Zone 5a
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