[Taxacom] pronunciation of Latin, concluding remarks

[Roger Burks]

I am willing to follow Dr. Covington's recommendation of using the
"Northern Continental" pronunciation. This opinion seems to be very
informed, and would not be a great departure from what many other
authorities favor.

Roger

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Robin Leech <releech at telus.net> wrote:
> The thing that has NOT come up in all this discussion is that some hundreds
> of years ago, 2 main forms of Latin were spoken.
> One was in the Churches, the other was in academe.
> So, which "official" Latin do you want?
> Robin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Frederick W.
> Schueler
> Sent: March-20-12 11:45 AM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] pronunciation of Latin, concluding remarks
>
> On 3/20/2012 1:20 PM, Pierre Deleporte wrote:
>>
>> Who says "impossible?" It's just difficult, but maybe well worth the pain.
>> Many people learn foreign languages. And motivated scientists are not
>> children.
>
> * but many People don't master the foreign phonemes in languages they learn
> as adults, and native speakers work around this inability when communicating
> with those who speak a natural language as a second language.
>
> The thing that hasn't come up in this thread is the question of whether it's
> more beneficial to encourage the widest possible use of scientific
> nomenclature within each natural language by pronouncing names as if they
> were words in the natural language in which it is embedded, or to further
> distance scientific nomenclature from popular use by insisting on a single
> universal pronunciation, which only benefits infrequent verbal communication
> between speakers of different natural languages.
>
> The major players here are not the "motivated scientists" but the
> naturalists, gardeners, and conservationists who need to communicate
> accurately about the organisms they deal with, and who are also the voters
> who elect governments that are, or aren't, sympathetic to systematic
> research.
>
> I vote for the widest possible use of scientific nomenclature, and minimal
> obstacles placed in the way of those who would use it,
>
> fred.
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