Snakely Speaking

[ConcinusMan]

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.

[EasternGirl]

Hmmm....well, I will try to change the way I say concinnus...but I am so used to saying it the other way that it will be tough. Albino is definitely pronounced "al-by-no"....marcianus, "marcy-ahnus". What about herpetoculturist?

[ProXimuS]

Thanks for that Richard

Now I've also got another:
Urates (Yoor-ayts)?

[EasternGirl]

Yur-rates. Okay...now with concinnus...on what syllable are we stressing? Is it "con-sinnus" or "con-sin-us"?

[ProXimuS]

"con-sin-us"?

That's what I've been saying. But I guess let's wait on Richard again

[ConcinusMan]

Yur-rates. Okay...now with concinnus...on what syllable are we stressing? Is it "con-sinnus" or "con-sin-us"?

It's the latter. Emphasis is on "sin"

[ProXimuS]

Haha, I didn't realize when I quoted Marnie it put everything in italics, so you couldn't tell which one I was saying.... Cun-sin-us, is what I meant

[ConcinusMan]

Yup. That's it.

[ProXimuS]

I've got another one:

Canescens(Kan-ess-ens) or (Kan-esk-ens)?

[ConcinusMan]

Just judging from what I know of using, reading, and writing (American), English my enitre life, (still far from an expert) I would definitely say that the "C" following the "S" is silent. Speak it as if that "c" which follows the "S" were not there.

From the web: Canescens is a botanical (referring to botony , the study of plants) Latin term meaning "becoming grey". As usual I can find many web pages which are so-called "dictionaries" and they tell the meaning, but give no pronunciation. Ridiculous. Any dictionary worth a damn will tel you how to pronounce a word.

Finally found it. Audio provided: Canescens Pronunciation