Subject: ! ! N E WKM> ! ! The TRIMERAL SYSTEM in BIOLOGICAL
KM> NOMENCLATURE...
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KM> The TRIMERAL SYSTEM in BIOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE
KM> a revolutionary new project.
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KM> TAXONOMY AT A TURNING-POINT? It is common knowledge that
KM> the so-called scientific names for plants and animals
KM> are all in Latin and that they obey a system introduced
KM> a couple of hundred years ago by the Swedish naturalist
KM> Linnaeus. Many people also think that this system is
KM> flawless and foolproof, since it is being used the
KM> wolrd over by botanists, zoologists, and the like, and
KM> is to be encountered in even the most elementary
KM> textbook
KM> However, nothing could be farther from the truth! The
KM> rules for applying this time-honoured method, called
KM> Taxonomy or Biological Nomenclature, have actually been
KM> codified only during the 20 th century. And what emerged
KM> was not order and unity, but disorder and discord. Just
KM> try to find the "right" scientific name for the blue
KM> whale from the various reference works. (There are about
KM> 50 on record!) And this for several reasons why.
KM> First, there is the notorious Law of Priority, which
KM> accepts only the oldest
KM> name coined (since Linnaeus), so that hardly a week
KM> passes without some name having to be changed because it
KM> is found that some researcher, at some earlier
KM> time, in some forgotten publication, indentified and
KM> named the specimen otherwise. And this is accepted
KM> regardless of whether the "new" name is relevant or just
KM> a frivolous concoction. Consequently, the ring-snake
KM> may be called Natrix natrix in one handbook, but Coluber
KM> natrix in the next, and Tropidonotus natrix in a third.
KM> Second, there is the constant progress in biological
KM> sciences, such as microbiology and genetics, which
KM> occasionally makes it clear that a gevin species
KM> actually belongs to another group (family) altogether,
KM> or that it is just a special life-form of some known
KM> species, or that one is dealing with two different
KM> subjects, and so on. Again, that way many names had,
KM> and still have, to be changed. The axolotl, originally
KM> called Siredon pisciformis, thus became Amblystomatis
KM> tigrinun, dependent on the year of publication.
KM> Thir, there is the right of the first researcher to
KM> invent a name of his or her own liking. So fantasy,
KM> ludicrousness, and linguistic knowledge) reign supreme.
KM> One of the easiest ways out is to make anagrams of
KM> extant names, such
KM> as turning the original Bolivia into Lobivia and
KM> Volibia. Afterwards, even the
KM> most experienced philologists have to rack their brains
KM> to reconstruct the original meanings.
KM> Last, but not least, there is the arguably deplorable
KM> fact that fewer scientists really master teh old
KM> classical languages, Latin and Greek (the latter is used
KM> just as much, but in a "latinised" from). This makes
KM> for numerous mistakes in gender, case endings, even
KM> spelling. The tomato can be found as Lycopersicon in on
KM> list and as Lycopesicum in another.
KM> So, what set out to be a fine professional tool, has in
KM> reality become a heavy
KM> burden for the vast majority of biologists, forcing
KM> them to learn a host of meaningsless names completely by
KM> heart, the way one would try to memorise hundreds of
KM> foreign people's names or telephone numbers or historic
KM> dates, without any mnemonic aid. The lion's part of
KM> almost every international seminar on living things
KM> therefore has to be devoted to problems and
KM> inconsitencies in Nomenclature!
KM> No wonder then, that more and more biologists are
KM> looking for a way out of this great predicament,
KM> unworthy of a modern scientific discipline. Several
KM> "solutions" have already been propesed, from simply
KM> using popular (English) names to the numbering of taxons
KM> and species with the Decimal Classification. None of
KM> these has succeeded up to now in breaching the walls of
KM> Tradition. Evidently the proffered baatering-rams lacked
KM> sufficient momentum.
KM> ==============================
KM> But here, from an obscure outsider, Manuel Halvelik,
KM> comes an astonshing and really promising new apprach,
KM> called the "Trimeral System" of "Universal Taxonomy".
KM> Astonishing, because it drastically doesaway with - not
KM> only any mention of author or year - but also any need
KM> to learn and use Latin or Greek, and yet keeps the
KM> "scientific names" still scientific! Promising, because
KM> it facilitates the positioning of a given species in
KM> its taxonomic framework as clearly and as securely as
KM> one might wish.
KM> The secret was to desing and compile an "International
KM> Terminological Key" (ITK), containing over 5000 word
KM> stems transposed from the classical dead languages, in
KM> such a way that they now all have a rigorously fixed
KM> from and meaning, and require only a handful of simple
KM> grammatical rules for making compounds and derivations
KM> practically without limit! Armed with this revolutionary
KM> tool, any scientist can now construct or reconstruct
KM> names without fear of making gross errors or becoming
KM> incomprehensible. No more worry about impenetrable
KM> internal meaning, about conjugations or declensions,
KM> orthographies or pronunciations! in fact... a child's
KM> play, since it resembles the Lego-concepts.
KM> Even more astonishing is the author's claim that
KM> whoever wants to use his versatile system, is in no way
KM> boliged to actually start learning this Uniespo. All one
KM> has to do is first memorise the 29
KM> (exception-free!)rules of ITK, study its simple
KM> "grammar", and finally to buy a small Esperanto
KM> dictionary to replace those old complicated Latin and
KM> Greek handbooks. For the
KM> rest, everything can be simply entrusted to a central
KM> databank and Internet
KM> Too good be true? Tolle et lege ...
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