Re: Easter greetings and more

At 03:41 PM 4/16/2006, you wrote:
>Greetings to all on Easter Day. Have a nice time-who have blossoms
>with them, who have no yet-wait until they will come. In Lithuania
>spring is very late, only snowdrops and C.tomasinianus start to bloom.
>Before some time there was discussion on Latin language matter. There
>is web site http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eclip/ where you can hear
>restored latin language speaking. There you will meet words which are
>used in floral sphere but rules of pronounsation are demonstrated for
>all cases. Three from begin are in Greek, all next in Latin. Nice
>hearing.
>Edmundas Kondratas
>Kaunas, Lithuania

Thanks Edmundas!  Happy Easter to you too.  :-)

I enjoyed the site.  But, how do they pretend to know the way a 
language was spoken thousands of years ago?  I speak modern Greek and 
found the site amusing & quite enjoyable.

Not being a botanist or scientist, I don't know the proper etiquette 
for pronouncing genus/species names.  I tend to speak them as if they 
were modern Greek words, and often get confused when I hear it 
pronounced differently.  LOL.

Dennis in Cincinnati, where all Irises are enjoying the near 80 degree weather.



 
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