US standardized name reference

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Ron:

I've known you for a long time, and I feel it proper to offer you advice.
Don't cross Anne; she has you outgunned - and she can spell and parse.

Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Gatrelle" <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
To: <viceroy at gate.net>; "Leps-l" <Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: US standardized name reference


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Kilmer" <viceroy at anu.ie>
>
> > Ron, Wanda is a nice lady who was trying to help you. Can't you lighten
> > up? It's about butterflies.
>
> Help me what?  I wasn't asking for any "help".  Wanda was just putting a
> plug in for the naba site (which she has every right to do).
>
> > Just go on using both sets of names, setting a good example to the
> > others, and ignore the whiners.
>
> That's just the point. I use both as often and as much as I know. But
there
> is a huge group that not only does not use "both" but _refuses_ to use
> "both" and  _also_ gripes (via personal email) to high heaven if someone
> else (me) doesn't use theirs, which just so happens to be common names,
> 100% of the time.
>
> I post a post using correct names for 9 taxa and also dig out 5 of their
> common names (which I personally seldom use) while I am dog tired from a
20
> hr work day _just_ to be nice to those who prefer common names, and I get
a
> personal email kicking me in the teeth by asking me to please use [all]
> _common_ names. This is not the exception, it is the rule. My other point
> is this stupid initial stuff - that is what my 13 year  old does all day -
> FYI, BTW, 3B, NGIT etc.
>
> It is about butterflies, isn't it. Or is it?  If it was really about
> butterflies people would be interested in what they "really" are and
> wouldn't be _forbidding_ the use of their correct names except in boring
> scientific journals.
>
> You sure seem to care about the correct name when it comes to yours. Is it
> Ann or Anne?  It is Anne, as you specifically pointed out to me when I
> first got on this group and called you Ann because I wasn't paying
> attention. But, I am forgetting that this is a one way street. *We* have
to
> use whatever people and butterfly names X prefers, but X has no reciprocal
> obligation, or even common courtesy, to use those names that *we* prefer.
> Heads you win, tails I loose.
> RG
>
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