Taxacom: Latin

[Jared Bernard]

I had no idea people had such intense objections to gender nomenclatural
rules. Prior to a century ago, entire species descriptions had to be in
Latin. It makes sense to switch descriptions to the language of the
publications' readers, but does it not make sense to at least maintain
nomenclatural rules to be consistent? I agree with Jan, Eckhard, and Lynn;
gender agreement rules don't seem that difficult and I think there are far
more important matters to overhaul in the field of taxonomy, such as that
it's scarcely taught anymore (let alone practised) so that people studying
biodiversity often have no grasp of the basic units of biodiversity.
Jared