name confusion

you already know worldofballpythons, they have A LOT of pictures of all the different combos, its good for looking up morphs. they also have a genetic calculator, but i dont like it, it has flaws and mistakes. but if you want to look up a morph combination and dont find anything, and you wonder what the morph combination is called, you can use the genetic calculator for a breeding that produces what you are looking for. and then you see if it has a special name, or if they really dont have it in their database.

i like this genetic calculator the most: http://www.owalreptiles.com/genetics.php . it gives you a nice overview. and its really precise and elegantly designed, and has nice functions like "post to bp.net" :D which gives you this when you breed super pastel + spider to pastel + pinstripe:

Male:	Killerbee
Female:	Lemon Blast
Percent	Fraction	Traits
12.5%	1/8	Killer Blast
12.5%	1/8	Super Blast
12.5%	1/8	Killerbee
12.5%	1/8	Super Pastel
12.5%	1/8	Spinner Blast
12.5%	1/8	Lemon Blast
12.5%	1/8	Bumblebee
12.5%	1/8	Pastel
View Results Page

and ironically, in this case, that just adds more confusion because they call the super pastel pinstripe spider "killer blast". i prefer "killer spinner", because i like calling the combo of spider and pinstripe a spinner.

it seems like all the names for combos keep changing over the years, and slowly inching towards something more consistent.

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Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser

Depends who you talk to. before a couple years ago, Both WoBP and NERDs websites claimed super blast was a super pastel pinstripe and killer blast was a super pastel spider pinstripe and both websites also claimed BHB was the first to produce both.

Then all of a sudden, WoBP changed their story and said killer blast was a super pastel pin and killer spinner was a super pastel spider pinstripe and also changed it to say NERD was the first to make both, even while NERDs own site said the other names and gave the claim to BHB. NERDs site has been redone since then tho.

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This.

Basically a pissing contest about who made the first one, so who gets to name it, several years after it'd been first created and people had already accepted one name...then it gets changed. Not like we don't need to make up for a confusion deficiency in the bp world. To me a super pastel pin is a superblast and a super pastel pin spider is a killer blast because that's what they started as for me...do I really care what anyone else wants to call them? Not really...it's not like there's any official naming committee, wobp basically just puts whatever name people tell them to that they feel is most correct, there is no governing body telling us what we have to call them. I know it can be confusing for some first coming into the hobby and trying to get caught up on morphs, asking is the best way to find what something really is often times, and names or words in a name are not always set in stone to refer to a morph or morph combo as part of a name. Enjoy the animals, don't stress out over getting caught up with names and have fun with it...and laugh a little sometimes when we find morph combos named stuff like Iron Maiden, Wet Dream, or CUMMP.

i studied linguistics for 2 years, so for me its totally fascinating how these changes occur under my eyes, and confirm theories i learned earlier.

so many people with "free will" deciding whatever they want, but as a whole, it moves, and it follows what i studied. and i can make predictions and they come true eventually. disambiguation is a strong force, as is conformity. definition has the potential to override it all, but only if a consensus backs it up and it actually gets adopted.

and english is just my second language, i am a native german speaker, and i plan on adding a third one. spanish or japanese, which one is better?