Dear Conchlers,

Later I know now what he ment with Zeiaeseireidae: The family was Thyasiridae. Speak this like English and Americans
do that.
with best regards
Helmut from Innsbruck

Helmut "Helix" Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
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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

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----- Original Message -----
From: Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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: [log in to unmask]
> 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.