Chris LXXIX
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If you want to laugh, for instance, just listen to "rosea" (of Grammostola rosea) spell by non Italians fellas :-sWell, Latin and Old Greek are both "dead" languages and as such there is no longer a "correct" way to pronounce the words. People from different countries will use different systems of pronunciation. I tried to touch that subject a bit with my discussion with ChrisLXXIX in regards to Italian pronunciation of Latin (soft "C" sound in front of "i", "ae" or "e" in contrast to Classical pronunciation in which "c" and "k" was always hard.) When it comes to Old Greek, no one really knows how to pronounce it anymore. The distinctions between voiced, voiceless and aspirated stops no longer exists in modern Greek for example. Neither does the Old Greek system of word accents that involved pitch. So, also with Old Greek we will use different systems. Greeks will pronounce it close to Modern Greek, whereas we learned the Erasmian system when I studied it at the University of Oslo.