Names (and other subjects)

[Chris Durden]

At 03:04 PM 1999:06:10 -0700, you wrote:
  
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>> But, unless a bug is useful, edible or annoying,
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  or beatiful, or ugly
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 it isn't likely to have
>> a common name. I see no reason to invent one unless an editor demands
>> it. In such a case, just translate the scientific one.
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  I agree wholeheartedly. The French in France and Quebec have been doing
this since the last century.
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>Isn't that inventing one? You sometimes get two species within the same
>genus that look different in the scientific name (can't think of one at the
>moment, typical!), but when translated mean exactly the same; often the
>problems are over colours, e.g. 'ater' and 'niger' (not nigrescens, because
>that means 'going black' or 'blackish' - have never seen the alternative,
>and 'aterrimus' means 'very black', so how would you translate that one?)
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  BLACK FLOPWING, PITCH FLOPWING, JET FLOPWING, SOOTY FLOPWING, 
BLACKEST FLOPWING ... there are plenty of options in English.
........Chris Durden
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>Kevin
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