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    Quote Originally Posted by rasoforos View Post
    Certainly but if you choose to go for a composite word then I believe it is best practice to ensure that it does not mean something offensive or ridiculous in one or the other language. You must agree that the case I mentioned is rather embarrassing.

    Loriesaura does not mean anything strange by the way so by all means go out there and discover yourself a dinosaur :-)

    maybe, if one is to protect names from being offensive to all languages, but consider this:

    nyctosaurus by your definition ought to be banned/replaced because it has an offensive arabic verb (nycto- sounds like niktoh= I * him), with the whole, according to arabic vernacular grammar, would mean "I the lizard"

    or kotasaurus; kot- in this name sounds a lot like kos/ koth, which is arabic vernacular for , so the whole is " the lizard"


    or haramiya, which sounds like haramiyya which means "crook; criminal ; thief"

    and yes, all of them are real names-look them up.

    in fact, quite a few binomial names would have to be deleted/redone so as not to offend Arabs, especially the more clever ones like myself. the point is simply: you're going to make something offensive eventually to someone. no point worrying about the names-heck, you can make jokes about them if you ever get bored-I use to do that in school all the time.

    besides "demented ape" is more funny than offensive.

    *I'm tired of getting warnings over stuff that isn't deliberately offensive. so I just put juggle smileys in their place. arabic words are excluded for demonstration purposes. (and no that statement is not a breech of rules )
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