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order — from morphology, habits, habitat, region, and (alas!) also substituted by proper names. The trouble is that such typifying particulars usually are rather limited in number, whereas the species may run into scores. This is particularly true for plants and animals on the lower rungs of the evolutionary ladder. Or, if there are sufficient characteristics to choose from, more often than not they are commonly shared by several species. Or, such characteristics may be short-lived or be just too particular, because they are linked to sex, season, age. Also, a typical trait may be quite hidden from view, and appear only on very close inspection (microbiology!). So, the biologist often faces a dilemma and will resort to nonsensical words (treated under Rule 7). In view of these difficulties it is utopian to suppose one can and must always find the exclusive characteristic, and set it down in the specific name. Therefore we should radically shift the helm by prescribing that, when the few really prominent and exclusive characteristics have been judiciously allotted, a list be made of all possible other characteristics. Then, the as yet unnamed members of the group (= those in need of renaming) will receive them according to an arbitrary distribution of the characteristics, such as the alphabetical order. Moreover, since Uniespo (as well as Esperanto) is an agglutinative language, there are usually several ways to combine the elements of a given specific compound word, making synonyms feasible and, in this respect, even desirable. Besides which, a meaningful epitheton — even if erroneous — is a lot easier to remember! 26 The only really important consideration here is to make sure that a given species carry a characteristic name attached to no other species within the same genus, even though eventually all the members of that generic group may lay claim to the very same characteristic !
It is precisely this stumbling-block of characteristic exclusiveness which defeats the rival NBN-project, mentioned before. This has led its advocates to produce a number of anagrammatic proper names, in absolute contradiction with their declared policy of turning scientific names into everyday language, so even the layman may understand what is meant. (See the application specimens for examples.) What about the particular endings for taxons, 16 such as Family, Order, and Class? Well, in the Trimeral System they utterly lose their function of taxon indicators and will be seen no more! 1. To replace them, we now have some meaningful suffixes pertaining to the sort of name used: -ARO for (high) taxons with vernacular names: Birdaro, Algaro, Fungaro, Mikrobiaro (Birds, Seaweed, Mushrooms, Microbes) -ESKOJ for “related to a given genus”: Ericacea Erikeskoj Blattidae Blateskoj -OJDOJ for “merely looking like”: Nematoda Nematojdoj Omphalodes Omfalojdoj -ITOJ for “fossils”: Trilobita Trylobitoj Pterisospermidae Ptersospermitoj -ULOJ for “having this common characteristic” Bryozoa Bryozouloj Cormophytae Kormofytuloj 27
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