!!!!uh-CROP-oh-rah!!!!

[Battlecorals]

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?


Anyway. Thinking out loud there perhaps. Here's a pack of ten of them. However you'd like to say it. Kind of like nuttin but net pack. Just a bunch of sweet and collectable captive gems.

375.00 shipped

1. Miyagi tort
2. Miss Scarlet table
3. Crazy Bananas milli
4. Poletti Yellow tip
5. The Beehive
6. Greg Carroll Arcoberry
7. D-Day Lokani
8. Grafted setosa
9. Pink Lemonade
10. BC bonsai

 

[ritter6788]

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.

 

[jedimasterben]

Well, that's technically how it should be pronounced.

 

[heathd.hd]

Where's the mother of that poletti yellow tip? Lol. Not on your site sir. Looks cool as a frag though.

 

[Battlecorals]

Well, that's technically how it should be pronounced.

Agree and even I gave it a whirl myslf but I just sounded funny. Like I had to try to hard lol

 

[jedimasterben]

Agree and even I gave it a whirl myslf but I just sounded funny. Like I had to try to hard lol

Yes it does! lol. Latin names are always trippy!

 

[ritter6788]

Agree and even I gave it a whirl myslf but I just sounded funny. Like I had to try to hard lol

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

 

[Battlecorals]

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

Ha ha totally right. If your not confident you just sound like a moron!

 

[Reef Fever]

I've always pronounced chaeto Chay-toe lol. and detritus, Deh-tri-tus with a short i but its properly pronounced deh-try-tus.

 

[gooch]

So Adam that makes you a Crop Propper. Or an uh..Crop..oh..rah.....Prop....uh....Gate....rrrrrrrr.....rrrrrr.....rrrrr.

 

[dss190]

I've been watching the American Reef videos with Mike Paletta, and he pronounces it uh crop oh rah and mon tip rah too.

 

[therman]

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"

 

[Rpujol85]

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"

That's basically how it is pronounced in all of the romance languages.

 

[Battlecorals]

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"

That actually rolls off the tongue a little easier than uh-CROP-o-ra. LOL

 

[Rob Top1]

Oops. Dp
Cell phone...go figure

 

[Rob Top1]

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.

 

[ritter6788]

Where is Mr. Borneman these days?

 

[Battlecorals]

So Adam that makes you a Crop Propper. Or an uh..Crop..oh..rah.....Prop....uh....Gate....rrrrrrrr.....rrrrrr.....rrrrr.

No idea how I missed this post. You said it man a crop proper am I

 

[Rob Top1]

Where is Mr. Borneman these days?

I had wondered the same. Pronunciation aside I always enjoyed talking with him and appreciated his insight. Google search has is arrest in 2011 as the most resent thing. Hope he is well

 

[tnyr5]

PRONUNCIATION OF BIOLOGICAL LATIN Including Taxonomic Names There ya go, have fun.