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

[Dennis During]

Correction:  sp. nov. is "species nova (new species)"
n. sp. should be "nobis species (~species of mine)", ie, species I am the
first to describe.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 11:22 Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com> wrote:

> n. sp. = new species
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 14:48 Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
>
>> The article in which T. fujigmo was named can be found at
>> https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/abs/harvest-mites-akidani-of-japan-and-the-far-east-and-their-relationship-to-the-autumnalis-group-of-trombiculid-mites/1BB356CE9E2F05C5C7615E70E447D1DA.
>> The first sentence of the extract reads, “Trombicula tamiyai and T. fujigmo
>> n.sp. are described and figured from Japan and northern Burma respectively;
>> the holotypes are in the U.S. National Museum.”
>>
>> I’m not sure what is the meaning of “n.sp.,” which is not part of the
>> italicized name in the original.  Note spelling?
>>
>>
>> John Baker
>>
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>> Jonathan Lighter
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>> Update:
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>> "Trumbicula fujigmo" is not a joke:
>>
>> tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd<http://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.
>> >
>> > The nomenclatural principle that anything now goes, however, still
>> seems to
>> > go.
>> >
>> > JL
>> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
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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 "
>> > >
>> > > (Qitd. by Mark Liberman at _Language Log_, 2006:
>> > > http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html<
>> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html>)
>> > >
>> > > JL
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com
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>> > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net
>> <mailto:Berson at att.net>>
>> > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > 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.
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > -Wilson
>> > > > =96=96=96
>> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange
>> complaint
>> > > t=
>> > > o
>> > > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> > > > =96Mark Twain
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