[Taxacom] pronunciation of Latin, concluding remarks

[Pierre Deleporte]

Who says "impossible ?" It's just difficult, but maybe well worth the pain.
Many people learn foreign languages. And motivated scientists are not 
children.

It's difficult, not impossible, for non-native-English-speakers to learn 
some fairly correct English as professional language.
This makes a lot of people on Earth.
And they better learn to prononce E,glish some "academic" British or 
American way, rather than using any obscure vernacular accent far from 
any academic standard (and possibly difficult to understand for many 
English speakers as well) - this for efficiency of communication and 
profit for all.

So, why not make the effort for using some approximately standard 
"academic" Latin?

Now, I suspect that not the same persons would have to make the maximal 
effort in this case...
As a native French speaking person, I feel very, very easy to pronounce 
Latin differently than with an incredibly strange and unintelligible 
English accent. Because I expect some latin pronunciation for Latin 
words, and of course for latinized words as well.

Anyone his turn, hey?... :-)

Pierre


Le 20/03/2012 15:19, Frederick W. Schueler a écrit :

> * this whole discussion neglects the imprinting of the pronunciation 
> of some phonemes and the inability-to-pronounce other phonemes by 
> children as they learn their mother tongue. If such scientific study 
> of the ontology of speech shows that a single global pronunciation of 
> scientific names is impossible, it seems scientifically silly to 
> suggest it. fred (coming from a meeting where a Canadian described 
> taking a pseudonym because her Chinese friends couldn't pronounce her 
> name) ------------------------------------------------------------

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