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PaphMadMan
phytomanic
One very important thing to remember... Anyone who makes you feel embarrassed about the way you pronounce an orchid name is a jerk. No one alive today speaks Latin as a native language, and modern botanical usage incorporates names of people and places that bring in spellings and pronunciations the Latin was never meant to have. Educate yourself, make a good faith effort, and roll your eyes at anyone with a superior attitude.
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goldenrose
Guest
:clap: :rollhappy: :clap: :rollhappy: I feel like we're 2 peas in a pod! After 25+ years of teaching dog obedience classes, I have a big, loud mouth but when I'm in public, not sure how to pronounce a name, it's amazing how I can whisper and then they're going 'what', (because they can't hear me) and that's when then panic sets in & I shorten it! You know, nice bella! (No disease in this name!)
THat's why I like talking to people here!
I totally agree Eric!!!!
I'll make that 3!
Ron-NY
Well-Known Member
we all try our best and can't ask for better. I try to listen to others and ask when I am not sure. Most of my latin pronunciation come from learning medical terms. There can be a big difference form here in the US and in Brittan with the pronunciation of the same words.
NYEric
Well-Known Member
Not to mention those funny accents! :evil:
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ORG
Guest
It is really interesting to read this thread as an european who has learned in school the traditional latin with the oldstyled classical pronounciation.
Latin was used for the plant- and animalnames that we have a possibility to understand over all language-borders.
But when I came the first time to USA I could not understand a lot of the names because the pronounciaton was so far away from the original. Then I learned also the pronounciation. But again Germany and other states in Europe it is really necessary to return to the classical way of pronounciation.
But I had more problems in Japan or Taiwan with a mixture of the pronounciation between american and asian style.
So it would be necessary to find really an international standard.
One note beside. Also when the name of a plant based on a name like Phragmipedium boissierianum var. czwerwiakowianum then we should use the latinized pronounciation, not for boissierianum the french and then for czerwiakowianum the polish.
Best greetings
Olaf
Latin was used for the plant- and animalnames that we have a possibility to understand over all language-borders.
But when I came the first time to USA I could not understand a lot of the names because the pronounciaton was so far away from the original. Then I learned also the pronounciation. But again Germany and other states in Europe it is really necessary to return to the classical way of pronounciation.
But I had more problems in Japan or Taiwan with a mixture of the pronounciation between american and asian style.
So it would be necessary to find really an international standard.
One note beside. Also when the name of a plant based on a name like Phragmipedium boissierianum var. czwerwiakowianum then we should use the latinized pronounciation, not for boissierianum the french and then for czerwiakowianum the polish.
Best greetings
Olaf
