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Re: [Ltru] To invert or not to invert?



Peter Constable scripsit:

> I don't see why that's particularly strange. True, "C S, O" reflects a
> better parse of "Old Church Slavonic". But I don't think the purpose
> of an inverted name is, at all, to convey something like whether
> it is the "Old Church" variety of "Slavonic" or the "Old" variety of
> "Church Slavonic". 

Ooookay.  Based on this example and its justification, I throw in the
towel.  I had believed that there was semantic information in the
inverted names that made them worth preserving, but now I see that
there isn't, or at least not reliably.  (What next, "Language, American
Sign"?)

So I now support the use of uninverted names only.

-- 
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'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place,
The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace,
We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall,
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