Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-19 Thread Adger Williams
Note that this is not peculiar to French. (Spanish, German, Russian, Italian,... all share this feature) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:51 PM, J. McRee Elrod m...@slc.bc.ca wrote: Friend Hal from down under has pointed out yet another problem with RDA words rather than hyphens, when only one of

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-19 Thread Benjamin A Abrahamse
While sine nomine and the like are Latinisms that never moved out of the world of bibliography and so appear to some users as obscure or confusing, I would argue that circa has become part of the English language. The OED certainly supports that argument

Re: [RDA-L] RDA question about dates

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 1/18/2012 3:21 PM, John Hostage wrote: Maybe the idea of hard-wiring dates and other additions into access points has outlived its usefulness. It made sense in a card catalog, but maybe not so much in an online world. Dates and other information can be carried as separate elements in an

Re: [RDA-L] Showing birth and death dates

2012-01-19 Thread J. McRee Elrod
Adgar Williams said: Note that this [different gender forms of born and died] is not peculiar to French. (Spanish, German, Russian, Italian,... all share this feature) In bilingual Canada, French is of course of most concern to us. Let's hope LAC and EURIG has the good sense to reject this