The Right of a Fly to a Common Name

My take after this thread was that the term “common name” is often a total misnomer and in its current usage, highly prone to misunderstanding…

It seems to me like there could be a more nuanced and expanded terminology for the naming systems themselves, providing better support and acceptance for the full range of approaches, all the way from the more traditional to more progressive / transgressive ideas.

There was a nice thread posted shortly after this one, which goes into this aspect deeper.

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