US standardized name reference

[Ron Gatrelle]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dameron, Wanda" <be496 at lafn.org>
Subject: Re: US standardized name reference
> Dear Ron,
> Am assuming LBJ is use of the common acronym of "little brown job;" sss
> is likely Silver-spotted Skipper found throughout the east;  next time
> to make name conversions either way, suggest simplyfying your efforts by
> using your keyboard 'control' and 'find' keys simultaneously on the
> Standardized name list at: http://www.naba.org/pubs/enames.html
>

Dear Wanda,
     Your reply is typical and proves my point. I said this is not about
common or correct names.  It is about _people_ who live on a one way
street - the one with their name on it.   It is about throngs who _refuse_
to use correct names but at the same time  _insist_ that all others use
common names. And now, more and more, they are just using letters that they
expect everyone else to know.
    Even you don't _know_ what LBJ stood for, you just "assume". And you
are quite willing to just assume in order to protect and promote your
sacred cow. This is real good science, real good documentation of, and
relaying of, observed taxa to the world community.
    You are so full of yourself and condescending that you think I am so
far below you  that I didn't figure out for myself that SSS was probably
for Silver spotted Skipper.  I didn't post that post, or this, because poor
little Ronnie didn't know what something was.  My point is _ why_ should I
have to _figure out_ a taxon like this  when all the
people who _prefer_common names need to do is supply a correct name along
with it -  the exact thing that was_ demanded_ that I do in reverse.
    And if Silver-spotted Skipper is to much trouble to type or say, try
just "clarus".
    Sorry Wanda,  there is nothing standardized about "your" names. You
can't even keep them a year without changing them. There was nothing wrong
with (1833) Ogeechee Brown Hairstreak as a common name - somebody just
didn't like it. Which was their prerogative, and mine - I have chosen to
keep using it. That is what common names are all about - what ever us
common people want to call something.

    Every single known organism on the planet already has a correct name -
these are highly regulated under international rules called the ICZN, ICBN
etc. - a real - standardized system that has been in place for centuries.

RG


 
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