Taxacom: Removals of offending scientific names

[George Beccaloni]

Names are just labels - there is no need to understand them. IMHO they
should be unchanging, and the nerdy, elitist requirements of the Code
relating to gender agreement should be scrapped as they make tracking names
difficult in our modern computerised world.

George
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 11:58, Michael Heads via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Abba is a good name for a genus - short, memorable...  I'm grateful that
> the 19th century taxonomists who named most of the genera in many groups
> *didn't* use the names of contemporary pop groups, pet politicians and
> other cultural ephemera. If they had, the names would now be
> meaningless, and we instead we can write with future users in mind. But
> preferences like this should not be law!
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