Re: Linguistic Agonies

Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Latin today is still the language of ancient Rome, even if later it
was intensively used by scolars in Western Europe, Greeks in
Byzantium, catholics all over the world, and in the past and present
by biologists to have unambiguous names for plants and animals.

Theoretically, as a side effect of the independence of nomenclatures from one another, you could have a plant and an animal using the same name.
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