jeanjacket812
New Member
Is it Veiled chameleon or is it Veild chameleon? I've seen people spell it both ways and I think veild is definitely misspelled. I've even seen breeders websites advertising veild chameleons. So which is right?
This is kind of bugging me
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jeanjacket812
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Yah I was pretty much 100% sure on that it was really more of a rhetorical question I guess.
fluxlizard
Avid Member
it's named after a veil like a bridal veil - the thing on it's head.
Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
Veiled is correct. FWIW I stay away from sellers or informational websites that can't even get the name of their animals right. Collard lizards (yeah, they are green and you cook them!). One of my pet peeves? Messages about "respitory" infections. The term is "respiratory". My favorite quotation sums it up:
"Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
jeanjacket812
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Yah I know what they are named after, I had a pair oh like 6 years ago. I was just wondering why everyone and their mom misspells the name, that doesn't bother anyone else?
jeanjacket812
New Member
That is the exact thing I was thinking I would never spend a dollar with a company that intentionally misspelled the name of one of its animals.
fluxlizard
Avid Member
Well, then the spelling should be obvious.
I never liked that name anyway- I thought it sissified a chameleon that looks and behaves like a cross between something out of a doctor suess book and something out of the movie "aliens".
Calyptratus just sounds cooler.
Or Yemen chameleon.
I would go insane if I got angry about every grammatical/spelling error I notice; they are EVERYWHERE. (most likely within my post, too!)
I don't claim perfection by any means; however, I don't understand how a person doesn't see how idiotic they seem when they can't even spell simple words correctly. Then again, my job revolves around creating documents and reports for clients so I'm probably a lot less forgiving than some.
Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
I would go insane if I got angry about every grammatical/spelling error I notice; they are EVERYWHERE. (most likely within my post, too!)
I don't claim perfection by any means; however, I don't understand how a person doesn't see how idiotic they seem when they can't even spell simple words correctly. Then again, my job revolves around creating documents and reports for clients so I'm probably a lot less forgiving than some.
There's nothing wrong with good grammar and spelling. It shows you care about how you present yourself to the world, that you care about what you create, and that you respect others you communicate with. I choose to be lazy in private.
sarroca808
New Member
veild FTW lol
lol
Lizardlover
New Member
Its veiled, but thats why I dont use common names too much, too much confusion.
for example, when someone says "pygmy chameleon", atleast 50 species come to my mind...
So what I prefer to call them in Chamaeleo calyptratus
for example, when someone says "pygmy chameleon", atleast 50 species come to my mind...
So what I prefer to call them in Chamaeleo calyptratus
jeanjacket812
New Member
I always knew it was veiled but I had been out of the chameleon game for about 7 years and didn't know if I had missed something, like some new chameleon slang where spelling veiled as veild was acceptable? I see it everywhere.
