Ill-formed names (joke, partly)

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>:

> Contrast these with clunky, stodgy Greco-Latin 
> monikers like _Aberriatodontus_ and _Sinusonasus_.

Well, they're partly clunky because they're unimaginative, and partly because
they aren't even well-formed Greco-Latin.

On the other hand, _Sinusonasus_ is actually perfectly good Latin--though 'Make
noise with your lap, pig!' is a very odd name for a dinosaur.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan