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Re: [dinosaur] dinosaur-l Digest Tue, 22 Dec 2020
Similiyanornis (did I spell that right?) is not an awful name, but it isn't
exactly euphonious. It's a bit of a tongue-twister.
The ICZN is clear that euphonious names are preferred. That might be even more
important than the etymology.
Paul P.
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020, 08:06:58 AM UTC, Nick Pharris
<npharris@umich.edu> wrote:
Unlovely and/or wrongly formed:
Preposing simili- is a clunky way of trying to capture the meaning âsimilar
to.â What happened to good old -oides (or the somewhat less common -aster)?
âAbitusavisâ is supposed to be derived from *abitus* âdepartureâ, but
the -s in *abitus* isnât really part of the word: itâs a grammatical ending
indicating case and number. If you really want âdeparture bird,â it would
be *Abituavis*.
âNick Pharris
On Dec 22, 2020, at 10:51 PM, Ethan Schoales <ethan.schoales@gmail.com> wrote:
ïWhat do you mean by that?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:10 AM Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:
Mickey Mortimer wrote:
âJust as an example, I just checked Similiyanornis and Abitusavis that were
described recently, and that's true for them. We would be losing a lot of
names this way.â
No great loss, as far as those two are concerned. Ugh.
âNick Pharris