Pronounciation Help Please
- Thread starter jungledriver
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pterus = tare-us
or ptero- tare-o
examples:
pterosphenoid is a bone in a fish its pronounced tare-o-sphee-noid
or
polypterus delhezi.... poly-tare-us del-hez-e (bichir)
Panda Uaru I have always heard as:
Panda Yar-ew
or ptero- tare-o
examples:
pterosphenoid is a bone in a fish its pronounced tare-o-sphee-noid
or
polypterus delhezi.... poly-tare-us del-hez-e (bichir)
Panda Uaru I have always heard as:
Panda Yar-ew
I used to pronounce Mbuna as "mum-by" I have no idea why. I know its "em-boo-na" now, but I can't say it in public because for some reason my brain makes my lips say it with an african accent, makes me feel awkward.
Because a lot of names are are Latin you can techniccally pronounce them any way you want. Latin is a dead language so no one can say for sure how to pronounce latin words. We can make educated guesses from Latin based languages like Spanish and Italian, Portuguese etc. but these languages have changed so much over the century's that it is really unknown. Even the church who delivers sermons in Latin are just going by How they think it is pronounced and how they were taught to pronounce it. / end rant.
Sure glad to know I am not the only one getting snarled at down at the LFS. I never even ventured a guess a Mbuna. Good to know.
