PhyloCode prefix/suffix?

Jim Croft jrc at ANBG.GOV.AU
Fri Oct 27 08:46:19 CDT 2000


> "!" has a sayable shorthand in English, so you don't
> have to say "exclamation mark Apogonidae",
> or, as I would be likely to say,  "explanation mark Apogonidae",
> you can say "bang Apogonidae" or "Apogonidae bang".
>
> Furthermore, standard monographic practice uses  bang to
> indicate "I have examined the specimen itself". And on annotation
> labels bang stands for "I agree".

In computer programming the '!' is often used to indicate 'not' as
in '!=' or 'not equal'

In this case it seem to be very appropriate to refer the the 'thing'
as 'not Apoginidae'...   :)

jim




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