Taxacom: Latin

[Lynn Raw]

Perhaps the botanists would prefer that this discussion and the related one on gender agreement should move to the logical list for discussions of zoological nomenclature at iczn-list at afriherp.org <mailto:iczn-list at afriherp.org> rather than on the Taxacom list. Please note that you need to subscribe to the list before you can post. You can do this at https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flist.afriherp.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ficzn-list&data%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C77a7cb64dd83463ff35308db77eba6a4%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638235627280841211%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ndbI8As0WoN227zqQ0uKOFM7UZsVIPIYKKjb4ScXTl0%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flist.afriherp.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ficzn-list&data%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C77a7cb64dd83463ff35308db77eba6a4%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638235627280841211%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ndbI8As0WoN227zqQ0uKOFM7UZsVIPIYKKjb4ScXTl0%3D&reserved=0>

Lynn


> On 28 Jun 2023, at 16.39, Jared Bernard via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
> 
> Mark, your argument is virtually the inverse of Alberto Ballerio's, who
> essentially said we could use the novice argument to suggest modifying
> other languages we don't like learning, such as Arabic, Czech, French,
> German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Rundi, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Swahili,
> etc. By the way, Latin is still the official language of the Holy See.
> 
> Plus, imagine if newly training surgeons refused to learn anatomical terms,
> which are based in Latin or Greek, and they instead made up new terms for
> body parts with every generation, until they could no longer understand
> their own literature. This would be a path toward breaking the field from
> all the research published over the past few centuries.
> 
> But I suppose it doesn't matter to say so as it seems nobody is changing
> their opinions on this discussion. Frank, you mentioned a potential vote on
> this matter with ICZN. It would be very interesting to see how it would go,
> especially if it could involve a majority of taxonomists as you said. I'm
> sure there are a lot of people who would like to weigh in who are not on
> this thread. Although I see the point of the botanists on here who balk at
> how much we talk about this!
> 
> Jared
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