RE: It's 2019 can we please stop the stupid?
August 6, 2019 at 5:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2019 at 5:55 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 6, 2019 at 5:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(August 6, 2019 at 5:46 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Umm, no.
Both are referred to as dolphins. Deal with it.
BTW - that difference isn't so different.
nomenclature
[ˈnōmənˌklāCHər]
NOUN
- the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
"the Linnean system of zoological nomenclature" ·
[more]
- the body or system of names in a particular field.
"the nomenclature of chemical compounds"
- formal
the term or terms applied to someone or something.
So? Still a huge difference between how laypeople name things and how scientists name and classify things.
I really don't like this trying to falsely equate the context here. How laypeople name things and how scientists name things are not the same context or "nomenclature".
But 'dolphin' isn't a scientific classification, either. It's from 'delphis', a Greek word which means 'fish with a womb'. See? Even the ancient Greeks knew it was a fish. And of the eight groups commonly called 'dolphins', only one is actually in the group called 'delphinidae'.
(Wikipedia is my friend)
Boru
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