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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 29, 2023 11:20PM

I am working on a biological website that contains thousands of Latin names such as Fucus vesiculosus and Patella vulgate. Is it really necessary to mark-up every change of language?

SC 3.1.2 (Language of Parts) contains an exclusion, saying "Individual words or phrases in one language can become part of another language" and uses "rendezvous" as an example. However, it's a bit of a stretch to say phrases like Fucus vesiculosus and Patella vulgate have become part of English. Or have they?

And then there's the problem of words that have been "latinised", but are not actually Latin. They are not really English either, so what are they? I think "Austrominius" is such a word. How would you recognise them if you don't speak Latin fluently?

It's probably safe to assume there aren't any Latin TTS synthesizers, so is there any accessibility benefit in marking-up the changes?

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Steve Green
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