[Taxacom] Objective synonyms?

[Richard Pyle]

Dude -- I just sprayed my soda all over my computer (half of it through my
nose)!  How about a warning next time you write such a farcical thing!
Jeez.... 

This is my favorite bit:

"the combination genus + species *is* the species name"

Oh, excuse me...I meant "favourite" bit, because that *is* the only correct
spelling of the word.....

Damn!  The inside of my nose is going to sting for hours.....

:-)

Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Croft
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:32 PM
> To: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Objective synonyms?
> 
> yep...  everyone switch to the botanical code...  :)
> 
> We have long recognised the three classes you describe and we 
> do and show this through use and insistence on parenthetical 
> authorship to show both the the transferred and the transferee.
> 
> It is not all about glory seeking ego as some uncharitable 
> zoologists have suggested.  It is about the pursuit of  
> 'truth, justice and the taxonomy way'...
> 
> In particular, the combination genus + species *is* the 
> species name and the epithet can not travel in isolation from 
> its genus, just as the author of the epithet can not travel 
> in isolation from the author who reassigned it to another genus.
> 
> The idea of combining the codes is a great and admirable 
> thing, but from a botany perspective this is a die in the 
> ditch issue.  Nobody wants to go backwards.  I reality, I 
> think zoologists do the same thing (more or less) but they 
> just do not regard this piece of information as important and junk it.
> 
> jim (wondering if Linnaeus had any idea at the time what a 
> mess he was creating)
> 
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:41 AM,  <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:
> 
> > Suggested solutions, anyone?
> 
> _____________________
> Jim Croft ~ jim.croft at gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ 
> http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft
> 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to 
> the point of doubtful sanity.'
>  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Taxacom Mailing List
> Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> 
> The Taxacom archive going back to 1992 may be searched with 
> either of these methods:
> 
> (1) http://taxacom.markmail.org
> 
> Or (2) a Google search specified as:  
> site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom  your search terms here