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I have a feeling you're fighting a losing battle here

• brunoborges 6mo ago
  Every scientific battle is worth fighting for!
  • psychoslave 6mo ago
    Scientific study of languages generally admits that language drift eventually.
    • deleted 6mo ago
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  • whyenot 6mo ago
    What is scientific about this pronunciation? Axolotl is not the scientfic name (its Ambystoma mexicanum), and usually the goal with pronouncing scientific names is for the listener to be able to spell the name after hearing it (at least for botany, which is what I am familiar with).
• embedding-shape 6mo ago
  Prenounciation and correcting other's spelling is always a losing battle, probably for everyone involved.
  • rezonant 6mo ago
    *Pronunciation
    • 867-5309 6mo ago
      whoosh
      • rezonant 6mo ago
        i think it's actually a whoosh for you :-)
      • dhosek 6mo ago
        *wush
    • penguin_booze 6mo ago
      Hey, that was the american spelling.
• TeMPOraL 6mo ago
  That one is ancient history. My 6yo is currently fighting her friends and their parents alike to make them realize and learn that there is an "L" at the end - it's "axolotl", not "axolot".
  • dasyatidprime 6mo ago
    It's technically not just “an L” if we're trying to avoid Anglicizing the pronunciation, right? The “tl” cluster is its own affricate with a lateral fricative as its tail, or am I misremembering?