EPITHET: MANDATORY NOUN

Yuri P. Nekrutenko YPNekrut at MBAT.FREENET.KIEV.UA
Sat Mar 30 19:32:04 CST 1996


Best, though totalitary, solution of all gender-induced
problems:

(1) Remove from the Code-4 the term "epithet".

(2) Retain the term "specific (subspecific) name" for
    species-group taxa.

(3) Accept all species-group names as mandatory nouns (to escape
    subsequent "justified" emendation, this provision should not
    be limited by the date of publications: all emendations of
    original spelling become unjustified).

And no grammar, dead or live, is necessary to provide binomens
grammatically correct. All become correct!

Yuri P. Nekrutenko
Institute of Zoology
UA-252601 Kiev 30, MSP
U K R A I N E
ypnekrut at mbat.freenet.kiev.ua




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