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Usually has nothing to do with it. It's popularity.
OUR ELKS WERE PROM KINGS. WERE YOURS?!
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Thommy H
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No, I'm pretty sure, in the science of naming stuff, precedent is given to the one that came first. If a bunch of people were calling something an elk and then a bunch of other people they sent to some random continent named the wrong thing the same name, the scientific community would recognise the first one. Otherwise it's just dumb.
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Incedentally, the wikipedia article on the American version of elk has an incredibly confusing way of explaining why there are two animals with the same name, which seems to indicate that European settlers didn't know a moose when they saw one, rather than just called a new animal by the same name as something else.
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I meant Wikipedia's naming conventions. Which are dumb.
But scientific naming is far different from "Elk or Moose". They get like. Genus and crap then.
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Wiki takes you to a disambiguation page anyway. And yeah, obviously they have scientific names, but I assume there's a reognised convention for common names too, isn't there?
My girlfriend, the zoologist, seems to think no, actually.
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Not really, no. I can't think of any now, but I know there are animals that have different names if you go to a different region of the country, for example.
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Yeah, and your "daddy longlegs" isn't the same animal as our identicaly named insect (yours is a spider, for a start). Plus I think there's a whole bunch of birds called incongruous names in America because the colonists who found them weren't trained ornithologists.
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My girlfriend and I were coming back from Lake Murray outside Columbia, and drove past this:
I couldn't get a better picture because I was being yelled at for being insensitive, but that minivan was completely up in flames.
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That's a minivan? Holyshit.
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Yeah, we could see the smoke from miles down the road.
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You have to crash your car pretty fucking badly to manage that. There needs to be an award for outstanding achievement in fucking up while driving.
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It really looked like it was set on fire.
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Well it's a dumb place to set something on fire. Don't commit arson in broad daylight by a busy road - you want to do it in a back street at night or something.
The important thing is that someone did something dumb for me to laugh at.
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On a far more important note... HOLY SHIT, the last 10 minutes of tonight's 'Who' were the greatest 10 minutes in the history of television. [spoil]The Master[/spoil] returneth... and he's got the Doctor's TARDIS.  And make no mistake... the sound bites of [spoil]Masters[/spoil] previous ( yes, [spoil]Delgado's[/spoil] line from 'The Daemons') produced a major twitch in the nerd pants...
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