Re: Erliansaurus etymology

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<I agree. But then why do you use "nei"?>

  Because this appears on the political maps available and is used in
various forms ("Nei Monggol," "Neimongol," "Nei Menggu," etc.) in papers
on the region. So I am loathe to use otherwise. The name "mongol" is
foreign to Chinese, and would seem that is in strict usage, a Manchurian
_menggu_ would be preferred, but I am referring to this region
geographically and not in a strict political sense, so I tend to use the
period geological referrences. Its a win-lose scenario, and little
favoritism involved, but I feel I have a foundation on some consistent
usage to draw upon. Perchance when a conductive transliteration of
geological terms and names in China is published for English, as in Benton
et al. (eds.) "The Age of Dinosaurs in Russian and Mongolia" (Cambridge),
I would follow that.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

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