----- Original Message ----- From: Helmut Nisters <www.helix@IBK.NETWING.AT> To: <CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:55 PM Subject: AW: [Fwd: pronunciation]

> Hi Art and Conchlers, > > the only problem is that English and Americans speaks Latin with an English ore > American accent. The e in Latin you should not pronunce as an i, the i not as an > ei, the u not as an a like hat, the a not as ae, eg. If you follows this you are perfect > in Latin. So once I heard a word pronunced as > > Zeiaeseireidae and I didn't know what he ment. the Z like the article the. > > with best shelling regards > Helmut from Innsbruck, > > Helmut "Helix" Nisters > Franz-Fischer-Str. 46 > A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck > phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14 > e-mail: www.helix@ibk.netwing.at > web: www.netwing.at/nisters/ > (please visit it and sign guestbook) > > office: > Natural History Department of the > Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck > Feldstrasse 11 a > A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe > phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37 > > ---------- > fyi > Hi, I'm one of the "problems!" When we Brits disagree about Latin pronunciation, the best jokey retort is: "It depends on what Public School you went to." Oldsters like me may recall the bogus Major in Terence Rattigan's "Separate Tables." He was denounced as a fraud after he mispronounced a Latin tag. Someone realised that he could not possibly have been taught the Classics at the public school he claimed to have attended. (Crime of the Century, or what?) Even after 45 years, just rembering struggling with Kennedy's Latin Primer brings me out in a cold sweat. Our main "problem" here seems to be the pronunciation of the letter C... hard or soft? (I favour the latter).As for Xenophora, the root is Greek.. so the Latin context here is almost academic. For what my two cents are worth, our general way is as with "xenophobia" i.e the XEN is as in.... the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Best regards, Mike Dixon.