lythronax
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I believe the scientific term is "hella massive."
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Post by lythronax on Oct 11, 2015 5:06:46 GMT
I've heard just about a billion ways to pronounce Quetzalcoatlus, and I've never seen a pronunciation guide anywhere. I've heard the end pronounced like coat-lus, ko-watt-lus, and even ko-watt without the final syllable! Apparently, it's a rule in the Aztec language to not pronounce the final syllable, though I'm not sure where I heard that and can't verify it. Where would you place the final syllable? Would you pronounce the final syllable?
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Post by Meg Dickson on Oct 11, 2015 5:18:28 GMT
I am not the person to ask about this
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Post by spinosaurusthefisher on Oct 11, 2015 6:10:16 GMT
I pronounce it caht-lus myself, although that's probably wrong.
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Post by theTorterra on Oct 11, 2015 19:02:15 GMT
Keht-zahl-co-AHT-l-uss or Keht-zahl-co-AHT-luss
Given the pronunciation of Quetzalcoatl I figured this was how it was pronounced. *shrugs*
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munkas02
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Post by munkas02 on Oct 13, 2015 21:01:07 GMT
KWE-tsal-co-AT-l-US
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lythronax
Dinosaur
I believe the scientific term is "hella massive."
Posts: 62
Gender: Category five kaiju
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Post by lythronax on Oct 14, 2015 0:13:55 GMT
The general consensus seems to be that no one has much of an idea and is guessing. I'm on that boat, too.
I looked up Nahuatl pronunciation, and tl is pronounced by making a t sound with your mouth in the shape for the l sound. The final syllable is pronounced. If it's supposed to be pronounced with Nahuatl rules, then it should be something like kay-tzal-ko-WATT-lus. Then again, I don't know if the people who named Quetzalcoatlus knew that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by dracontes on Oct 18, 2015 6:35:32 GMT
You can find the Dinosauria.com pronunciation guides here. It should help with most of the popular ones. Here's a Latin pronunciation guide as well. Have fun  |
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lythronax
Dinosaur
I believe the scientific term is "hella massive."
Posts: 62
Gender: Category five kaiju
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Post by lythronax on Oct 19, 2015 3:59:37 GMT
@dracontes: Thanks! Though I do have to add that Quetzalcoatlus is mostly Nahuatl, so the Latin pronunciation guide wouldn't help there.
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Post by Meg Dickson on Oct 21, 2015 6:04:49 GMT
You can find the Dinosauria.com pronunciation guides here. It should help with most of the popular ones. Here's a Latin pronunciation guide as well. Have fun WHY HAS NO ONE INFORMED ME OF THIS |
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Post by dracontes on Oct 25, 2015 18:51:56 GMT
@dracontes: Thanks! Though I do have to add that Quetzalcoatlus is mostly Nahuatl, so the Latin pronunciation guide wouldn't help there. In principle, names should be latinized properly to approximate their original rendition with the sound-to-letter code available for, at least, ecclesiastical Latin. The trouble is that not enough taxonomists nowadays know enough Latin to do that. Hence the various commentary on the Dinosaur Mailing List that people fudged their grammar. Consequently, I feel that with this state of affairs people are pretty much welcome to do what they like regarding pronunciation of scientific names. Even so, I'd rather someone of concern would establish an unequivocal correspondence between letters and sounds so that the process were straightforward even if it would wreak some havoc retroactively. As far as I'm concerned, I use the classical Latin pronunciation regardless: so /kweht-dzahl-coh-aht-lus/. |
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