On 2/8/07, Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote: [snip]
> (And a plea to all of you who publish new names: PLEASE include a > suggested pronunciation in the systematic palaeontology. Thanks to > Jerry for doing this with _Suuwassea_ -- one of the few dinosaur > names that there is no excuse for mispronouncing!)
And a second plea: if you do this, please do it in IPA, and not English pseudo-phonetic spelling!
Seconded! The only thing worse than English fauxnetics by a native English-speaker is English fauxnetics by someone with a Chinese (or whatever) accent.
-- Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?