RE: New iguanodonts in PLoS ONE

[Mickey Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

Neither is "erect", of course. ;)

But seriously, I have to ask if there is any good reason for caring about using 
proper Latin or Greek in scientific names.  We're not actually speaking the 
language, just making labels for taxa.  Surely it doesn't matter how we make 
the label as long as we can communicate it.  Maybe it's a generational thing, 
but being picky over the formation of names strikes me as something only 
someone who uses aescs and cares where their salad fork goes would be concerned 
with.

Mickey Mortimer

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> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:03:05 +1100
> From: dannj@alphalink.com.au
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: New iguanodonts in PLoS ONE
>
> On Wed, Nov 24th, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Denver Fowler  wrote:
>
> > From: Dann Pigdon 
> >
> > >I'd have thought that poor Latin grammar would be grounds for rejecting a 
> > >paper
> > >that errects a
> > > new name - except that many such mispellings over the years would suggest 
> > > otherwise.
> >
> > kettle
> >
> > pot
> >
> > black
>
> "Misspelling" isn't a Latin word... :-p
>
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