Re: SP: Spage Age Terminology

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 7/9/99 9:22:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, loberg@jps.net 
writes:

<< Anner's suggestion of 'Appendaged Irises' certainly would be appropriate,
 and I like it, but would it be hard to  "sell" the public? >>

Education is the prime mission of AIS and the Society abounds in technical 
terminology. Explaining "Space Age" with its unfortunate overtones of the 
Jetsons can't be easy now since no one seems to like it or see the 
appositeness of it. Whatever one calls these irises one eventually has to 
deal with the phrase "extra petaloid parts," or some variation that does not 
suggest an unsettling freakiskness. But in reality explaining "standards" and 
"falls" is where one usually has to start out with the public. Then come such 
fine terms as "amoena" and "neglecta" and the inevitable riff on why things 
with striped foliage are variegated, but are not "variegatas"  but striped 
flowers are not variegated, but are "color-broken". And then there are those 
ever popular size divisions. And this is just the basic bearded stuff. 
Unfortunately, regardless of what the "public" will accept, technical 
terminology cannot always be scaled to the lowest common denominator. 

I'm not wedded to the term "Appendaged." In fact I'd personally do way with 
the whole special category and make them part of the larger scheme of things 
with their characteristics to be noted in their formal descriptions like any 
other set of characteristics. 

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com

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