• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Ooof. That reminds me my mum saying “Coelogyne” (an orchid genus). It throws me a curveball:

    • Ecclesiastical - [tʃe.lɔ.'dʒi.nɛ]
    • regional (Portuguese speakers) - [se.lo.'ʒi.ne]~[se.lo.'ʒi.ni]
    • her pronunciation - [se.lo.'dʒi.ne]

    Then I spend a few seconds thinking “selodine… no, that’s not right” because the local dialect parses [dʒi] as /di/.

    At least I don’t have this problem with the Paphiopedilum. She simply calls them “sapatinho” (little shoe).

  • surpador@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    I feel like this is a missed opportunity to spread the good news of the many other Latin pronunciation systems, particularly the traditional English system from which we get most of the English scientific pronuciations :)

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      26 days ago

      Wow, i never realised how bastardized our pronunciations are in english lol. It’s very subconscious though, since we’ve normalized these words as english.