[Ads-l] Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Update:

"Trumbicula fujigmo" is not a joke:

tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd

Page 58.  The species was named in 1950.

JL

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> In the interest of full contextual disclosure, Liberman adduces evidence
> that T. fujigmo was an April Fool's joke.
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> The nomenclatural principle that anything now goes, however, still seems to
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> > I believe I mentioned the mite once before, but if not or even so:
> >
> > "[T]axonomists have been amusing themselves quietly for years, as names
> > suc=
> > h
> > 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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> > JL
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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>
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> > > > also "Afro-American"?
> > >
> > >
> > > No worse tha using a French surname combined with a word of
> > > Native-American origin, e.g. as in
> > >
> > > "Nicot[iana] tabac[um]"
> > >
> > > 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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> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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