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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.09.17 12:59, Martin Koppenhoefer
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-25 12:39 GMT+02:00 Oleksiy
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<div class="m_6265290662024243214moz-cite-prefix"> The
Latin language itself has been for centuries the
language of science, and it remains the language of
scientific classification. For example, Isaac Newton
wrote his breakthrough books in Latin.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Ancient Greek has been for centuries
the language of science and has contributed many words to the
scientific language of many modern languages, which are still
in use today. And similarly to using latin there will be no
doubt about which preference is given (European culture). ;-)</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Martin</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">PS: Seriously, choosing Latin rather
than English has no advantage besides adding an elitarian
touch on top of the Europe-centricity.</div>
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<p>The discussion is on ideas of introducing labels in Latin
alphabet. The ancient Greek, however, has got its own non-Latin
alphabet.</p>
<p>If not Latin, then why English? Why not French? The metric
system, which is used in most countries, was developed in France.
At least, using the Latin language removes such questions. I guess
it is probably acceptable for the Latin America; if so it is not
completely a Europe-centricity solution.</p>
<p>And it is not necessary to study the grammatical structure, what
we need is just to look up a name of a place, one word, in the
"la" Wikipedia. And it is understandable, for example Japan is:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaponia">https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaponia</a> , Tokyo is:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokium">https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokium</a></p>
<p>It is clear, that keeping map titles only in local alphabets is a
possibility, - it is the status quo. The question was how still to
make a map usable on the international scale.<br>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Oleksiy<br>
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