Hi, everyone;
Here is something I have not thought over until now.
I am adding a quoted note 500 in an imported copycat bib. I would normally
attribute it thus:
--T. p. verso
Well, no abbrevations, so Title page verso. But, we are avoiding the Latin
terms in RDA as often as poss., correct?
I think everyone is still using “verso” and “recto” if appropriate. I wouldn’t
try to find a replacement term in this case.
Adam Schiff
University of Washington Libraries
From: Karen Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:55 AM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: [RDA-L] title page
Karen Nelson said:
Title page verso. But, we are avoiding the Latin = terms in RDA as
often as possible.
The borrowed terms verso and recto are universal enough IMNSHO to
be used in notes, along with i.e. and e.g.. I agree that you
should spell out Title page; T.p. is less well known.
Even my
Karen said,
But, we are avoiding the Latin terms in RDA as often as poss., correct?
Verso is a perfectly good English word, which you can find in any
decent dictionary. Granted, it's a loan word from Latin. But so is
title and page (which I assume were brought to the English language
via
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