Latin Name Pronunciation

[Nathan Ross]

this is a very very annoying and irritating problem of the English scientific world and the language, in the Netherlands we do not change names of Classical authors or the ancients

It's not unique to English surely - I've often found the Italian habit of almost completely changing latin names (see Massenzio, above) quite mystifying. I don't know whether this sort of thing also happens in Spanish. Perhaps this is just because some languages (German, for instance, and perhaps Nederlands) have more of a facility for incorporating long multi-syllabic nouns and proper names, whereas others do not. English tends to break longer words down, or chop bits off to fit them into regular speech.

Please people who speak English, start using proper Latin and Greek names and proper pronunciation and stop changing them in Iupiter's name for crying out loud......... :evil: :evil: :evil:

Ok, ok!... But shall we also start calling Gaul Gallia, and London Londinium? And referring to a legionary as a LeGionarius (with a hard G of course!)

- Nathanius