Re: Genetive Emendations (Khaan mckennai, etc.)

[Daniel Bensen <dbensen@gotnet.net>]

>>
  Anyways, ICZN rules state that even if incorrectly formed or
applied, after 1999, any name must be retained unless
preoccipied.<<
Really?
So what this means is, for all intents and purposes, Latin is no longer the
language to be used when giving linnaean names to newly discovered species.
Biologists may still use Latin if they choose, but if they are not forced
to, most new species will be given Latin-ish names, but nothing that
actually makes any sense.  I don't implore this fact (there are only so many
pertinent Latin names, anyway) but why don't we just give in and give newly
discovered species English names?

I look forward with great anticipation to the upcoming description of
_Littlefeatheredthing birdlike_.

Dan