Taxacom: Latin

[Jared Bernard]

 Mark, your argument is virtually the inverse of Alberto Ballerio's, who
essentially said we could use the novice argument to suggest modifying
other languages we don't like learning, such as Arabic, Czech, French,
German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Rundi, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Swahili,
etc. By the way, Latin is still the official language of the Holy See.

Plus, imagine if newly training surgeons refused to learn anatomical terms,
which are based in Latin or Greek, and they instead made up new terms for
body parts with every generation, until they could no longer understand
their own literature. This would be a path toward breaking the field from
all the research published over the past few centuries.

But I suppose it doesn't matter to say so as it seems nobody is changing
their opinions on this discussion. Frank, you mentioned a potential vote on
this matter with ICZN. It would be very interesting to see how it would go,
especially if it could involve a majority of taxonomists as you said. I'm
sure there are a lot of people who would like to weigh in who are not on
this thread. Although I see the point of the botanists on here who balk at
how much we talk about this!

Jared