[Taxacom] species names for sale.

[Curtis Clark]

On 2007-01-25 18:08, Thomas Lammers wrote:
> I know of no rule that forbids the coinage of new words in English
> when they are needed.  "Speciose" fills a percieved need; everyone
> knows what it means, even its detractors. 

Yes, it means species-rich.

> There is no reason to
> aside from a pedantic devotion to etymological purity to avoid the
> word. 

I'm proud of being a pedant (all that education wasn't for nothing), but 
it's not etymological purity, rather a sadness that people coin 
unnecessary words out of ignorance. It's the ignorance I deplore, not 
the coinage of new words. I know that deploring ignorance is not held in 
high regard these days, but then, well, I'm a pedant.

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