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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I feel like this is a missed opportunity to spread the good news of the many other Latin pronunciation systems, particularly the traditional English system from which we get most of the English scientific pronuciations :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, i never realised how bastardized our pronunciations are in english lol. It's very subconscious though, since we've normalized these words as english.