Peter et al,Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:09:55 +0200 From: "Peter Mudde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OGD] Orchid pronounciation.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. Church Latin has little to do with real Latin. OK so what do you mean to say with this? The question is not whether we use Latin(ised) words. We do. And believe me, you will never find a majority to change that.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) The question was: "How do we pronounce the stuff?" How are you getting agrement between people who can't even decide how to pronounce the letter "a" or how to pronoune a Dutch or German "Sch" ....It is however a good idea to have some agreement on how to pronounce names. No, but they know "Kindergarten" although they pronounce that wrong too.I remember the confusion of tounges the first time I talked to american scientists using scientific names.. Yes .... Garfield is Garfield ....Humor is a good idea here.. Greetings Guido -- Prof. Dr. Guido J. Braem Naunheimer Str. 17 35633 Lahnau Deutschland/Germany Tel. +49 6441 65333 |
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