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  1. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    It is worth reading about other attempts to rewrite language. Such things were tried in many times and places in history which almost always ended badly. Probably because the idea to rename reality comes together with other faults. I am surprised that American universities don't teach it. How...
  2. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Maybe you are a bit older but it is young people who matter?
  3. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    I think it functions depending from the community as either appreciative or insulting. Which according to that young American meant that people in the rest of the world cannot use it for the wild cat.
  4. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    I already heard a young American seriously telling that black Africans should rename their country and river N*ger, because it is inacceptable. He completely did not grasp that they were black people themselves, and they named their river and home region centuries ago. Another young American...
  5. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Following their logic, mythological names are practically all from Western mythology. Say's Phoebe, Lucifer Hummingbird, Harpy Eagle and so on. As well as lemur, Venus flytrap and other non-bird creatures. I don't know if there are any birds named after non-European mythologies.
  6. jurek

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    If people would seriously care about bird names, let the birding community change names between themselves. Maybe people would genuinely switch from the name Kingbird to Freedom Bird? Just like Americans in the 2000s tried to rename French fries into Freedom fries...
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