Re: Vernacular and Linnaean Naming (Was: KT boundary event)

UC wrote:

neverbetter wrote:

UC wrote:

r norman wrote:

On 14 Jun 2006 14:01:23 -0700, "UC" <uraniumcommittee@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



You understand NOTHING about language.

If all you care about is notions of meaning, of language, of
semiotics, or whatever related subject, then why are you toiling away
here in talk.origins? (OK, I know. You have been thrown out of all
other fora.)

The subject matter that is appropriate here is origins. More
specifically, it is evolutionary origins. Questions about
evolutionary relationships between dinosaurs and birds and between
dogs and wolves are most certainly appropriate. Questions about Eco
and vernacular and German translation and the like are distinctly off
topic. People here are not too fussy about topicality but have
already shown you far too much tolerance, in my opinion.

If you want to say "birds are dinosaurs" it shows you have no
understanding of how to communicate scientific information, whether you
like to hear that or not.

Your communication skills are lacking. You want to know why a majority
of Americans don't accept Darwinism? Because of incompetent people like
you!

How do you explain the fact that the majority of people in many other
countries accept the evolutionary theory even though they've been
plagued by equally incompetent people who say that birds are dinosaurs?

They don't say that in other countries. They don't speak English in
Germany or Poland or Russia.

Can you really be this stupid, or are you just into obfuscation and
distraction? Or perhaps a bit of both.

1. They speak English in a number of countries where creationism is not
a big problem, yet those countries are also plagued by the same
incompetent (and lazy and foreign) scientists who say that birds are
dinosaurs.

2. In countries where they don't speak English, the lazy foreign
scientists say the same thing, but in their own languages. "Oiseaux sont
dinosaures", etc.

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