[Taxacom] Not news: Latin scholarship statistically zero

[Redhead, Scott]

It will be helpful in the future if replies identify which Code is being cited. In the ICN, Arts. 20.2 & 23.2 indicate for algal, fungal & plant names that generic and species epithets may be compose arbitrarily, but Principle V indicates that they be treated as Latin. 

Scott

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Francisco Welter-Schultes
Sent: April-08-13 11:17 AM
To: Curtis Clark
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Not news: Latin scholarship statistically zero

Art. 11.3 rules that for being available, a name may be derived from Latin, and that it may also be an arbitrary combination of letters. An incorrectly or unusually formed Latin word may either be regarded as a word derived from Latin, or if it is too incorrect to be regarded as a Latin word, then as an arbitrary combination of letters.

It would be easier to regard all specific names that are not declineable Latin adjectives, as arbitrary combinations of letters.

Francisco


> On 2013-04-08 1:16 AM, Cristian Ruiz Altaba wrote:
>> A name that does NOT belong to human language is NOT available under 
>> the Code.
>
> That would presuppose that Lovecraft's works were not fiction.
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