Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

California's Clear Lake named for the clarity of the region's air

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Clear Lake , the largest freshwater lake entirely inside California, was named by early European settlers for the clarity of the fresh ai...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Geographical renaming: from Kreisau to Krzyzowa

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Kreisau was the seat of a branch of the Moltke noble family from 1867 until 1945. It was purchased by Helmuth Carl Bernhard von Moltke (1...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Geographical renaming: from Klein-Bresa to Brzezica

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Klein-Bresa is a village in Silesia ( Polish : Śląsk , German : Schlesien , Czech : Slezsko ). After World War II, its name changed to Br...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Geographical renaming: from Breslau to Wrocław

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Places change over the course of time; and so do their names [1]. An example is today's city of Wrocław (pronounced “rock-law”), locat...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

HLB, short for huanglongbing, Chinese for “yellow dragon disease”

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Huanglongbing , also called HLB  for short, is a disease of citrus plants [1]. The Chinese name “huanglongbing” means “ yellow dragon disea...
Monday, March 18, 2013

A botanic garden acronym: CUBG for Cambridge University Botanic Garden

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CUBG stands for C ambridge U niversity B otanic G arden. Botanic gardens and arboreta always are great places to study plants, to follow t...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A term in chemistry: elementary substance

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An elementary substance is a pure chemical substance that consists of atoms belonging to a single chemical element. Otherwise, if atomic s...
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