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Years ago I was on the phone with Eric Borneaman, having a brief conversation about flatworms and sps, We discussed a number of rather interesting and important details over the course but what stuck with me the most from that chat was every time he mentioned acros he pronounced them just as the title is written.

uh..Crop..oh..rah..........................


Emphasis on the second syllable. Anyone else pronounce them that way?


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There's an old fragging video of him and he says "mon TIP rah" for montipora too. But then he says capricornis just like you would say it normally.
 
Where's the mother of that poletti yellow tip? Lol. Not on your site sir. Looks cool as a frag though.
 
Battlecorals said:
Agree and even I gave it a whirl myslf but I just sounded funny. Like I had to try to hard lol
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I still feel like the oddball saying "key toe" (chaeto). Everyone else says Cheeto like the chips.

I think the rule for speaking Latin is to speak it like the experts do. Lol
 
ritter6788 said:
I still feel like the oddball saying "key toe" (chaeto). Everyone else says Cheeto like the chips.

I think the rule for speaking Latin is to speak it like the experts do. Lol
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Ha ha totally right. If your not confident you just sound like a moron!
 
I've always pronounced chaeto Chay-toe lol. and detritus, Deh-tri-tus with a short i but its properly pronounced deh-try-tus.
 
So Adam that makes you a Crop Propper. Or an uh..Crop..oh..rah.....Prop....uh....Gate....rrrrrrrr.....rrrrrr.....rrrrr.
 
I've been watching the American Reef videos with Mike Paletta, and he pronounces it uh crop oh rah and mon tip rah too.
 
I'm and ACKrowPOURuh man myself. It is really hard for me to wrap my head around merging part of the two root words into a single syllable ("Acro"-highest point, "porum"- pore).

That is like pronouncing motorcycle "Mo-TORSI-cal"
 
therman said:
I'm and ACKrowPOURuh man myself. It is really hard for me to wrap my head around merging part of the two root words into a single syllable ("Acro"-highest point, "porum"- pore).

That is like pronouncing motorcycle "Mo-TORSI-cal"
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That's basically how it is pronounced in all of the romance languages.
 
therman said:
I'm and ACKrowPOURuh man myself. It is really hard for me to wrap my head around merging part of the two root words into a single syllable ("Acro"-highest point, "porum"- pore).

That is like pronouncing motorcycle "Mo-TORSI-cal"
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That actually rolls off the tongue a little easier than uh-CROP-o-ra. LOL
 
I remember being so confused the first time I heard Eric say that. The mon TIP rah about drove me mad a few years after that in a conversation about a monti eating nudi treatment he was working on.
 

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