Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
Doesn't follow. Like all scientific names, it too follows the rules of New Latin.
I read this: New Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but still would have better luck just guessing how the word is pronounced. I don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about. Might as well be written in Japanese. I don't even know how the words they used to write the rules are pronounced.

"The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate for the letter t when not in the onset of the first syllable and preceding unstressed i followed by a vowel."

Yeah, whatever they just said. If you say so. Pretty much all l I understood there was "The use of blah, blah, blah, blah, vowel"

Am I embarassed about that? No. I'll admit I have a hard enough time with just English as a first language. Now if the rules I just read were only written in English... I've been speaking it and reading it my entire life and I still don't understand much of it. When I figure it out, maybe I'll try studying Latin.