Re: OT-HUMOR: LEAF HOLES
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT-HUMOR: LEAF HOLES
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:16:07 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 28 May 1997, J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey wrote:
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> >
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> Jeff Walters, forgive me for pointing out that you appear to be suffering
> from an exceedingly educated acceptance of European-linear inherited
> canonical thinking. It is high time botanists freed themselves from their
> field's traditional, lyricism-dampening dependence upon Latinate
> nomenclature. Scientists of other cultures have just as valid a claim to
> recognition in the naming of species as do the late, unlamented Romans and
> their lackeys, the German monks. I. fromage suisse should be recorded under
> the French citation because it was first observed in France by a
> French-speaking Frenchman.
>
> I pray every day for your deliverance from the shackles of outmoded
> authoritarianism.
>
> ;->
> celia
> stprey@aristotle.net
> Little Rock
>
Right on! Celia!>
