Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.

[Jonathan Lighter]

In the interest of full contextual disclosure, Liberman adduces evidence
that T. fujigmo was an April Fool's joke.

The nomenclatural principle that anything now goes, however, still seems to
go.

JL
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I believe I mentioned the mite once before, but if not or even so:
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> "[T]axonomists have been amusing themselves quietly for years, as names
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> as *Colon rectum* (a beetle),* Ba humbugi* (a snail), *Oedipus complex* (a
> salamander) and *Ytu brutus* (a beetle) attest. Besides, how much disrepute
> could commerce really bring to the discipline that brought the world
> *Trombicula
> fujigmo*, a mite whose name is an acronym for =93fuck you Jack, I got my
> orders.=94 "
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> (Qitd. by Mark Liberman at _Language Log_, 2006:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html)
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > also "Afro-American"?
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> > No worse tha using a French surname combined with a word of
> > Native-American origin, e.g. as in
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> > "Nicot[iana] tabac[um]"
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> > I reckon.
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint
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