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In reply to the discussion: Dozens of birds to be renamed to shun racism [View all]hunter
(38,761 posts)96. We should just stick with the names Adam and maybe later his "helper" Eve gave them...
... as later inventoried by Noah and his family on the Ark.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Genesis 2:20
My personal take is that the author of that was possibly being sarcastic too. Name all the animals? Are you fucking kidding me?
Naming all the animals really wasn't a possibility before Carl Linnaeus applied eighteenth century accounting technology to the task.
Personally, I'd like to know what names people who lived here in the Americas gave these birds before the European invasion. I'm certain these birds had Native American names. Naming is what humans do.
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Duh, I didn't make that connection with Byzantine empire--whoosh, right over my head.
Wingus Dingus
Nov 2023
#37
I love watching them soar, they hardly ever flap their wings, they just use the wind
a kennedy
Nov 2023
#62
My breast surgeon doctor has a beautiful illustration hanging on her wall of the waiting room
Walleye
Nov 2023
#39
The example they give is a bird named for a Confederate general. Do you object to changing that?
Scrivener7
Nov 2023
#44
They started by considering removing names of terrible people, and then expanded the idea to make names more
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2023
#11
On the topic of encouraging black birdwatchers, there's this comedy bit I love:
Wingus Dingus
Nov 2023
#14
They should be numbered. Bird-1, Bird-2, Bird-3,... "Look, it's a 29." "No, it's a 666. Better call Johnson's wife."
Wonder Why
Nov 2023
#31
I looked at the list...They are proposing naming the common names, not scientific names.
LeftInTX
Nov 2023
#50
What they are doing is getting rid of all honorific names, because those are stupid.
Voltaire2
Nov 2023
#63
I like how you assume that nobody here on DU "actually cares about birds".
Wingus Dingus
Nov 2023
#65