RE: Playin' Yer Banji

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>:

> I understand, but the way *Mei long* works is effectively a  
> uninomial broken into two, rather than any attempt at a Latin  
> phrase. Any time at this poin that thye same naming convention is  
> ued as in *Mei*, I will exect the exception in intent will prove  
> greater than any attempt to parse it into Latin/Greek.

I'm aware that that's the intent, but that doesn't mean I have to like it! :-)

Seriously, it strikes me as pretty arrogant of a couple of recent  
authors to try to unilaterally overturn a 200-year-old system of  
nomenclature.

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Nicholas J. Pharris