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Mystery thorn tree
Gene Royer schreef
What a silly thing to say in a public forum. Do you ever stop to think before you hit the send key? You're as silly as an Anseranas semipalmata. + + + Actually it does not require thinking to repeat an established truth. Vernacular names are only useful in a limited social context. If social context is not specified it is a guessing game what the vernacular name applies to. IIRC it is not that hard to find vernacular names that refer to as many as a hundred species. Vernacular names often are worse than useless because people assume that they adequately name a plant when they give a vernacular name. Old stuff, especially in a public forum. PvR |
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Mystery thorn tree
Gene Royer schreef
What a silly thing to say in a public forum. Do you ever stop to think before you hit the send key? You're as silly as an Anseranas semipalmata. + + + Actually it does not require thinking to repeat an established truth. Vernacular names are only useful in a limited social context. If social context is not specified it is a guessing game what the vernacular name applies to. IIRC it is not that hard to find vernacular names that refer to as many as a hundred species. Vernacular names often are worse than useless because people assume that they adequately name a plant when they give a vernacular name. Old stuff, especially in a public forum. PvR |
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"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message ... Gene Royer schreef What a silly thing to say in a public forum. Do you ever stop to think before you hit the send key? You're as silly as an .Anseranas semipalmata + + + Actually it does not require thinking to repeat an established truth. Vernacular names are only useful in a limited social context. If social context is not specified it is a guessing game what the vernacular name applies to. IIRC it is not that hard to find vernacular names that refer to as many as a hundred species. Vernacular names often are worse than useless because people assume that they adequately name a plant when they give a vernacular name. Old stuff, especially in a public forum. PvR A public forum such as this where anecdotal information is mixed with Google-gained knowledge is a "limited social context". Some of you may elevate your diction in order to present a more erudite demeanor, but this is still a Mickey Mouse public forum composed of pseudo intellectuals and amateur botanical dabblers. Get unstuck on yourself. More plants (and indeed species) are referred to in general identifications by their vernacular nomenclature than are so by scientific names. Crabgrass is crabgrass, loblolly pines are loblolly pines, and pin oaks are pin oaks. An exception, of course is Anseranas semipalmata, which is always called by that name. --Genoglad I could clear that up for youRoyer |
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Mystery thorn tree
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In article , Gene Royer writes You're silly. Of course vernacular names are useful. What a silly thing to say in a public forum. Do you ever stop to think before you hit the send key? You're as silly as an Anseranas semipalmata. Can I offer you 100 Rose of Sharons at $2.00 apiece? [1] (In the UK Rose of Sharon is Hypericum calycinum, which is a ground cover plant, and it shouldn't be difficult for me to dig up that sort of number of shoots. In the US it is Hibiscus syriacus.) [1] Not a serious offer; I would have to add P&P to make a profit. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley Thanks Stewart, but I never buy stuff on the Internet. --Geno |
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Mystery thorn tree
Gene Royer schreef
A public forum such as this where anecdotal information is mixed with Google-gained knowledge is a "limited social context". + + + Yes but this shared social context is limited to such things as "DAGS". It will be awhile yet before there are Google-approved common names for all the plants in the world, or rather for the English-speaking-Google-world. + + + Some of you may elevate your diction + + + You sure have an advanced computer, if it reads your NGs out loud to you + + + in order to present a more erudite demeanor, but this is still a Mickey Mouse public forum composed of pseudo intellectuals and amateur botanical dabblers. + + + I assume this is an attempt to describe yourself? By the content of your messages you are overestimating your abilities, you don't seem to qualify as an amateur botanical dabbler. + + + Get unstuck on yourself. More plants (and indeed species) are referred to in general identifications by their vernacular nomenclature than are so by scientific names. Crabgrass is crabgrass, loblolly pines are loblolly pines, and pin oaks are pin oaks. An exception, of course is Anseranas semipalmata, which is always called by that name. --Genoglad I could clear that up for youRoyer + + + You can't spell either: "glad I could clear that up for you" would come to "GICCTUFY" or "Gicctufy" not to "Geno" PvR |
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