[Taxacom] ICZN Opinion 105

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Richard,
       I agree.  Even the word dictionary has 10 letters, and
nomenclature has 12.   These are nice middle-ground words---not
particularly short, but certainly not unusually long either.   However,
ICZN should frown upon any taxonomist who becomes an unkind
hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist.  
            ----------Ken

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Richard Zander wrote: 
     Limiting names to 7 or 8 letters makes strange combinations
necessary when we get to naming the 500 millionth species: "Kwthizk
xxngghh" or so, when all the euphonious letter combinations are used up. 
Rchdzndr