05-01-2020, 02:29 PM
Diane has been writing a number of blog posts criticizing Marco's views on the plants in the "three names section". I tried to explain to her why I fully agree with Marco on this matter: the plant names don't make any linguistic sense, we can't recognize them, it's not realistic that for hundreds of plants a name is provided in precisely three languages: "commmon", Greek and Hebrew. The names don't show any resemblance between languages, while plant names are especially prone to borrowing (if they are traded, as Diane expects of the exotic plants). In short, the names in this section don't make any linguistic or practical sense and appear made up.
Additionally, many of these plants have magical elements in their image and/or text, which is consistent with the idea of mythical or made-up plants.
Back in the day I made a quick and rough transcription of the names for all the "exotic" plants I could find in this section. I shared this list with Diane, hoping she'd quickly see how absurd the naming scheme is. Unfortunately, this didn't work and she has selected a plant name she recognizes: the kaki, a.k.a. persimmon, incidentally my favorite fruit
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The image is one of the more fanciful ones, with multicolored leaves shaped like serrated arrow heads. Unfortunately I discovered that my ability to read the text of this MS went from "a little bit" to "almost nothing" over the last two years. Can anyone see what the text is about?
Additionally, many of these plants have magical elements in their image and/or text, which is consistent with the idea of mythical or made-up plants.
Back in the day I made a quick and rough transcription of the names for all the "exotic" plants I could find in this section. I shared this list with Diane, hoping she'd quickly see how absurd the naming scheme is. Unfortunately, this didn't work and she has selected a plant name she recognizes: the kaki, a.k.a. persimmon, incidentally my favorite fruit
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The image is one of the more fanciful ones, with multicolored leaves shaped like serrated arrow heads. Unfortunately I discovered that my ability to read the text of this MS went from "a little bit" to "almost nothing" over the last two years. Can anyone see what the text is about?