>>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:50:57 +0200 From: "Prof. Dr. Braem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Any suggestion as to how to pronounce Latin words is pure guesswork. There are a few texts from which experts in Latin language can deduce a few hints on how "certain" parts of the Latin was pronounced by the romans. But basically it is all guesswork.>>> Hello Guido, Well, there is a population of people who are supposed to speak 'live' Latin: bishops and cardinals and such of the Roman Catholic church. But I have to quote my friend Theo Kemperman on this: "The introduction of neologims for plant and animal names for which there is no supposed equivalent, does not just disregard the the official latin scientific taxonomic instrumentarium of the largest group of users of latin names, but also implies a reduction instead of a supposed enrichment" (a proposition in his scientific phd thesis against the introduction of 'kivium'for the fruit kiwi in Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis instead of using Actinidia chinensis or Apteryx australis) It is however a good idea to have some agreement on how to pronounce names. I remember the confusion of tounges the first time I talked to american scientists using scientific names.. >>>only the Dutch and Flemish can pronounce "Scheveningen" properly.<< Ever heared an American inform after the location of the 'Viergebroedersgebergte'in Surinam?? Humor is a good idea here.. Greetings.. Peter Mudde _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
