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Anecdotally, Russians and Englishmen talk (pronounce) Latin [names of biological taxa] rather differently. In my opinion, not really informed because we did not have a Latin course, saying '-aceae' as 'ayshae' is wrong, and although I know people do that it still throws me off for a moment. Still, I've just realized that there are non-English biologists who mangle Latin as they wish. Has anyone got any data on how widespread is the English Latin?
Yes, "Englishing" Latin is a pet peeve of mine.
All these people going around scribbling ROMANES EUNT DOMUS on walls... :-)
I do: here in Italy we speak the most direct descendant of Latin and news casters still pronunce Latin words as if they were English.
Every country has a different pronunciation of Latin. Standardizing on the English version sounds like an improvement to me.
English has awful, unintuitive pronunciation rules. Almost any other Indoeuropean language would be better. I would prefer Spanish or Italian.
The standard pronunciation of Latin by English speakers doesn't follow English pronunciation rules. I added a link. Italian pronunciation was a possible standard, since it is generally used by the Catholic Church. But that doesn't seem likely to spread in Russia.
Italian pronunciation rules are different from those of Classical Latin. Even Ecclesiastical Latin sounds different from Classical Latin, and closer to the modern Italian norm. My school priest pronounced Humanae Vitae as "oo-man-eh bee-teh," whereas in ancient times it would have been "hoo-man-eye wee-tye."