[Taxacom] Asterales

[Roger Burks]

I suppose one last link might help. There is a pdf available from a
University of Georgia linguist, who succinctly gives a summary of the
different major methods of pronouncing Latin, including a rule on
accents, notes on history, and a table of competing methods of
pronunciation:

http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf

He recommends the "northern continental" pronunciation, which he
rightly distinguishes from ecclesiastical (mainly Southern European)
Latin. It might also help address the inevitable confusion that occurs
over terminology.

Roger

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Pierre Morisset
<pierre.morisset at globetrotter.net> wrote:
> This is indeed an ancient problem.
> When Pehr Kalm  stayed in England on his way to North America, he mentionned  to Linnaeus (in a letter dated February 9, 1748) that it was no use visiting the English gentlemen of London, to whom Linnaeus had written letters of recommendation, because he could not speak English. He added that even if these gentlemen knew Latin (which Kalm spoke fluently "in the Ciceronian way"), it was useless "because their pronunciation is incomprehensible". See The Linnaean Correspondance (http://linnaeus.c18.net/).
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> I remember a talk by Max Walters to an international botanical audience. Every latin name occurred twice in a row, the fist pronounced the English way and the second the more "general European" way, so that all botanists attending could understand what he was saying about «Silene diclinis Silene diclinis".
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