[Taxacom] Concladic or concladal? (To clade or not to clade)

[Don.Colless at csiro.au]

Please, Kevin, pose, raise, demand, etc. a question, but don't "beg" it. To beg the question (petitio principii) is a traditional, highly respected term for a particular logical fallacy: to covertly assume the point at issue. Unfortunately, it sounds so profound that it's become a great buzz word among the shallow-brained media. But I like the joke!

Don Colless,
Div of Entomology, CSIRO,
GPO Box 1700,
Canberra. 2601.
Email: don.colless at csiro.au
Tuz li munz est miens envirun 

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OK - this then begs the question - is this the first good cladistic joke (of
course, some may regard that cladistics was the first good joke, but we'll
set that aside)

Cheers - k

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Barry Roth
Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 8:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Concladic or concladal? (To clade or not to clade)

Because I speak English, not Greek, and -al is readily understood as an
attributive suffix in English, the issue of a Greek root is not merely
academic, it is irrelevant.  Apart from the freedom which I as the coiner
(if indeed I am that august and front-running individual) enjoy in making up
words as I please -- and Humpty-Dumpty had something to say on a related
matter -- I like the ululating flow of "concladal" better than the click of
"concladic":
   
  "Who was that concladal I saw you with last night?"
   
  "That was no concladal, that was my sister-group."
   
  Cheers back,
   
  Barry

Ken Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:
  I have certainly seen the word contaxic, but not "concladal". 
However, since the root comes from the Greek "klados", wouldn't the 
preferable spelling perhaps be "concladic"? I'm not sure.
----Cheers,
Ken Kinman


		
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