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Originally Posted by Ditiola  I would rather not use vernacular names at all, but I seem to sense that the WAB forum expects these names to be used.
Peter |
not at all as far as I am concerned - given that we are involved in a science here, I think it's preferable that we at least use the
scientific name in any posts (I don't like the term 'Latin name' as it is a bit off-putting/potentially elitist
so why make people learn
two names (ie the scientific name plus an often questionable English one)
this theme has been thrashed out before on these 'pages', so I'll shut up; but before I do, we are lucky to have Andreas visiting this site - he has been of immense help to people here . . . English names probably mean little to him . . . maybe we should accord him the courtesy of using the German vernacular name for a species (after all if two names are good, three must be better?) or maybe he would settle for the internationally understood scientific name . . .
Chris