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LOL
amo amas amat amamus amatis amant
I did my thesis on Pachydiplex longipennis
:-)
But I think la cucuracha is a roach..
Rosie
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Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:38
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slightly OT
- Latin Pronounciation Help
G'day,
When it comes to Latin in
science, you really can't go wrong, no matter what anyone says, because the
"rules" are not absolute, although some modern "experts" try to standardize
pronunciation. This is mostly because scientific naming using Latin uses
the English pronunciation of things like "Caesar" ==> pron. C�sar. (Cesar
w/ stress on "e"). Also if they are scientific names, the original
language pronunciation must be conserved for imports like for the name of the
Bessey's Cherry, "Prunus besseyi", or Farmer's Orchid, "Dendrobium farmeri",
or the Fijian Snail, "Ba humbugi", or the moth "La cucuracha", look up the
different species of the Gressittia genus if you have a sophomoric sense of
humor, and figure out how to pronounce that one.
However, in Classical
Latin (around the time of Christ), if that is your interest, pronunciation can
be quite different, and Caesar is pronounced Kysar; the letter "v" is
pronounced as "w"; get a copy of Vox Latina by Sidney Allen if you want to do
it like it is thought the ancients did.
In two syllable words, the
stress ("accent") is almost always on the initial syllable. If you have
a short vowel (double consonant) in the second to last syllable in words of
more than three syllables - i.e., short vowel sound in the second to last
syllable, the stress is usually on the second to last syllable, but there are
lots of exceptions derived from letters like th, ph, ch, etc. (this can be
better appreciated when you keep in mind the th sound is from the single Greek
letter theta, the ph is also the single letter "f" sound from Greek letter
phi, and ch is still considered a single letter en espa�ol. On the oher
hand the "x" is considered two consonants as it is pronounced "ks" and second
to last syllable is the tendency producing a short vowel sound as in
"Lexus-Nexus" or Texas, rather than TEEX-as; similarly the long sound in words
like "pinus" which thankfully botanists say PYE-nis instead of PEE-nus,
lu-PYE-nus instead of lu-PEE-nis.
This all seems close enough to
on-list to me if you want to study place names of ancient meteorites for a
good part of the then governed world, or old scientific descriptions of rocks
and suspected falls.
Saludos
Doug Dawn
Mexico
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G'day all,
Sorry for the slightly OT
topic. In some of my meteorite readings I came across some Latin words and
terms. I would like some help with pronouncing them and would certainly
appreciate any help. If you can speak Latin could you please contact me off
list?
Thanks,
Jeff Kuyken
I.M.C.A.
#3085
www.meteorites.com.au
www.meteoritesaustralia.com
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