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minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·25 days agoWith how much squabbling and splitting and recombining and all this nonsense with Latin names lately, sometimes the common names are just more practical to use. I’ve started wishing there was a common name authority like with birds.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·25 days ago I’ve started wishing there was a common name authority like with birds. The common name authority like birds : Ah yes, the official name of that bird is the “Tit Warbled Booby”
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-225 days agoWe can call ourselves: Horticultural Organization for the Reviewing of Names Yearly
With how much squabbling and splitting and recombining and all this nonsense with Latin names lately, sometimes the common names are just more practical to use.
I’ve started wishing there was a common name authority like with birds.
The common name authority like birds :
We can call ourselves:
Horticultural
Organization for the
Reviewing of
Names
Yearly