Re: REF: Pronounce Species Correctly

When I was a tomato breeder, I took the Tomato Genetics Cooperative Newsletter.  I could read the articles in English, of course.  And I was Niger using French 6 days a week, so I could read articles in French.  With my one year of German, I could read the articles in German, though I couldn't speak German or read about anything except tomatoes in German.
But once I was reading a French article, and I thought "This French I worse than mine.  But I could read it so I continued.  At the end, it said the research was in Argentina.  So I went back over it, and saw that all teh errors were consistant.  El instead of le, dos instead of des, and suffixes were off, but off consistantly.  I had just read an article in good Spanish.
I have often told my children and my students.  "Latin is just bad French."  Sometimes I have said it is bad Spanish.  Depends on who I'm talking to.
From this thread, I've learned that sometimes the Latin used today can be just bad English, too.
Walter
 
jgcrump <jgcrump@erols.com> wrote:
Walter -- Bhm nmos ms an t-adh leis na liomsa; nml cailmn rza alainn
faighte agamsa fss. (He was luckier than I; it hasn't brought me a beautiful
redhead yet.)
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