utype questions

[Frederic Hessman]

Sorry to dig back into the utype question, but why isn't the use of  
multiple, translatable vocabularies a la SKOS the ideal (indeed only)  
solution?  Don't want user readability, don't want to enforce a single  
usage, don't need an ontology, don't want to restrict mixing and  
matching as long as I can match what's been mixed, just need a good  
label.   Or am I being naive and/or single-minded?

Rick