Re:Against the naming of fungi (2013)
by TotempaaltJ on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:19AM
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As far as I understand, most Latin used in naming of species isn't Latin at all.
Re:Against the naming of fungi (2013)
by geoalchimista on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:26PM
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Classical Greek in Latinized spelling, I would add. Still, the noun/adjective declensions are Latin.
1. The mapping from Latin binomial to digital code is not a difficult problem if there is a universally used, standardized database of fungi.
2. Human mind does not think in digital code. The name exists for human understanding not for machine.
3. Latin is a dead language that does not evolve. The meaning of a word in any living language (e.g., English) would potentially change over time.
Rather, I think the real problem is that Latin should be revived in the biology curriculum. One does not even need to learn verb conjugation to know what species names mean because only nouns and adjectives are in the binomials.