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MrMind comments on Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Romashka 15 January 2016 06:21:25PM 2 points [-]

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?

Comment author: MrMind 18 January 2016 10:45:27AM *  1 point [-]

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.