Re: New issue of JVP 2001(2) (semi-JOKE)

["Demetrios M. Vital" <vita0015@umn.edu>]

I originally wasn't going to join this discussion...but I was pulled in.

> I personally dislike Anythingraptor. I was talking to someone about
> _Eoraptor_, and they asked if it was as mean as the "Raptors" from
Jurassic
> Park. Gah...same thing with oviraptors and such. People now assume that
they
> are related to dromeosaurs, due to Jurassic Park...

There are a lot of uneducated people in the world, especially concerning
dinos.  That guy asked about raptors being "mean"...that's more of a
problem than nomenclature.  I don't think that names should be affected too
much by popular ideas, excepting certain possible ICZN issues (i.e.
Tyrannosaurus rex to Manospondylus gigas...*cringe*).

> Second worst is "saurus." I think its overused and boring...

I have to step in here for the good old-fashioned Latin and Greek
(especially Greek) names.  They're the best dino names, the classics!
There's nothing wrong with "-saurus" in my book!

Why's everybody hatin' on the Greek etymology, yo?

Oh well.  I'm done.

-Demetrios (...I'm Greek) Vital