[Taxacom] Taxonomists take note....

[Bryan]

That is interesting. Thanks. It is easy to see however why Hitler's
pronunciation of the Latin was off. W. Sidney Allen, Vox Latina
(written in English), Cambridge, 1965 was written after he moved to South
America and it is in English.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:56 AM, <Frank.Krell at dmns.org> wrote:

> Oh yes, we do. See www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf
> The German pronunciation, given that German is a phonetic language like
> Latin, is much closer to the Roman pronunciation than the English
> pronunciation.
>
> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:
> taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Bryan Heidorn
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Taxonomists take note....
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> Since no one knows how Latin was pronounced originally I guess it is not
> surprising that Latin names are pronounced differently in German.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:09 PM, "Richard Pyle" <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>
> wrote:
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> > My wife just brought this to my attention:
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8
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> > Aloha,
> > Rich
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> > P.S. I had no idea that Hitler was an ichthyologist during his earlier
> > career.
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