Re: Clitoria ternata and other matters
William Glover wrote:
>
> On 12/2/00 8:34 PM Moira Ryan wrote:
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> >You will have by now heard from others on the list that not only is the
> >name of Clitoria intended to be explicit, it was coined by none other
> >than the great Linneus himself. While the Victorians were markedly
> >prudish their forbears in the eighteenth century certainly were not!
>
> How prudish was Linnaeus I know not, but one could get unbuttoned
> in dead languages just as easily then as now. Apudne te vel me?
>
Hi William
Oh I don't think the _present_ generation is particularly prudish. I was
rather contrasting the age of Linneus with the height of the Victorian
generation which among other things Bowlderised Shakespeare. I remember
one line in the sanitised version of Hamlet we used at school which
ended in mid-air with the Queen saying "when other husband kisses me"
and every child in the class filling in the obvious end - "in bed". So
much for Victorian prudery!
And forgive me, my meagre Latin is not quite enough to translate your
tag without hel. Maybe you could find time to oblige?
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
