Suggestion: Tag or Sub- tag for Scientific names

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Mon Feb 3 14:32:25 CET 2003


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Peter_Constable at sil.org scripsit:

> For
> instance, in speech synthesis, there is probably some acceptable range of
> pronunciations used by Russian biologists for some plant name (or perhaps
> standard Latin pronunciations are acceptable to any audience) [...]

Definitely not.  Pronouncing "Canis" in any other way than [kejnIs] to
an anglophone biologist will get nothing but a bewildered stare.  In
biology as in law, the English (i.e. 15th century vowel shifted)
pronunciations
are the living ones.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan at ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the
language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_






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