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Re: Afrovenator pronunciation

To: LOKICORP@compuserve.com
Subject: Re: Afrovenator pronunciation
From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:33:55 EST
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
Reply-to: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

In a message dated 11/16/99 3:28:53 PM EST, LOKICORP@compuserve.com writes:

<< Should not the manner in which the person who actually named
 it be the "official" pronunciation (or, at least, as close as one can come
 to the language and accent of the name and the namer)? >>

Absolutely agree with this, and I know that Ben Creisler has gone to great 
lengths to determine original authors' pronunciations of recently formed 
dinosaur names.

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