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31-Jan-07, 05:27 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | |  Help with lingo and Pronunciations
Hey guys, just lookin for a bit of help with the lingo found on this site, as well as the Pronunciation of scientific names...ie. morelia bredli...is it pronunced Mor-el-ee-ah bred-lee. just stuff like that to help me out and other newbies entering the site. i know alot of the lingo comes from instant messaging such as lol = laugh out loud, not 'lucky old lady' as i've heard some people think 'lol' but also things like MD's as murray darlings, or stimmies as stimsons pythons, BHP's as black headed pythons, etc etc. Post as many as you can think of i'm sure myself and many others will find it useful especially the Pronunciations. Cheers Andrew
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31-Jan-07, 05:28 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: May-06 Location: Suburban Adelaide Age/Gender: 24  | | | | mor-el-ee-ah bread-lye
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31-Jan-07, 05:29 PM
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31-Jan-07, 05:42 PM
|  | primitively archaic Moderator | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Gender: | | | Quote:
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Good call. There is a glossary of terms for just this purpose. I just made it a 'sticky' post so it will be easier for new people to find.
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31-Jan-07, 05:47 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | | | Thanks heaps guys, the abreviations post makes things a whole lot easier, did it end up becomming a sumarised sticky, and if so where, i'd like to print it off and keep it handy.
as for the Pronunciations of scientific names side of things is there a similar thread?
cheers
Andrew
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31-Jan-07, 05:48 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Qld Gender:  | | | | Tann mann - I think the pronunciation of scientific names is a great idea, don't know if this question has ever been asked before - I would be interested to know. Its like some fish pronunciations eg; Cichlids. |
31-Jan-07, 05:51 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | |
Yeah the scientific names can be real tongue twisters without some help, if this thread takes off i'll see if i can do a summary at the end and attach it as a adobe PDF doc for everyone to use 
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01-Feb-07, 11:07 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | |  Scientific names
well since this thread is moving down the list...'bump'!!
I've compiled a list of scientific names, only pythons thus far, that i would like to know how to pronounce the scientific names correctly. fell free to add any other herps to the list. any contribution would be great. especially corrections. just type them how they sound.
cheers
Andrew 
Scientific names: Common Names Pronounciations: Antaresia childreni Children's Python
Antaresia maculosa spotted Python
Antaresia perthensis Pygmy Python Antaresia stimsoni Stimson's Python Aspidites melanocephalus Black-headed Python Aspidites ramsayi Woma
Leiopython albertisii D'alberti's Python Liasis fuscus Water Python
Liasis o. barroni Western Olive Python Liasis o. olivaceus Olive Python Morelia amethistina kinghorni Scrub Python Morelia bredli Centralian Carpet Python Morelia carinata Rough-scaled Python
Morelia oenpelliensis Oenpelli Rock Python Morelia spilota cheynei Jungle Carpet python
Morelia spilota imbricata Southwestern Carpet Python Morelia spilota mcdowelli Coastal Carpet Python Morelia spilota metcalfei Inland Carpet Python Morelia spilota spilota Diamond Python Morelia spilota variegata Northwestern Carpet Python Morelia viridis Green Tree Python
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01-Feb-07, 11:09 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | | | Well that kinda didn't work, i had it all set out in a table like format...i hate computers
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01-Feb-07, 12:07 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: N.S.W Australia Age: 20 | | | | get back to finding somwhere to live boi!
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01-Feb-07, 12:09 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Wish it was in bed. | | | what the hell is boi???
You are not an annoying little Canadian wannabe punk poser. (well maybe you are, i dont know)  But there is no such word as BOI.
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01-Feb-07, 12:13 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Armidale NSW Age: 24 | | | | Forgive my younger brother i think BOI is BOY, these kids lol, martyn don't forget to slash ur I's to make em Y's lol.
so yeah anyone wanna have a crack at some of these pronounciations, i can't even contemplate how some of them might even sound.
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01-Feb-07, 12:27 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: N.S.W Australia Age: 20 | | | | ha ha candian punk poser!?!?!? yeh right! "TANN-MANN" is supposed to be looking for a new house to live in! but unfortunatly like a good majority of us our day seems to widdle away on this site... as addictive as it is!
"boi" is slang that city pple don't seem to understand! and yes it stands for boy!.
brotherly love huh.
yeh bk to these pronounciation.
is it spil-ot-ar???
l8r
Martyn
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01-Feb-07, 12:38 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Wish it was in bed. | | | | They all sound exactly (or very close) to their latin names. Latin is an amazingly easy language to pronounce from the written word.
Its whittle, not widdle, People from the city?? don't understand redneck idiocy or inability to spell properly? We understand it all to well, we are just amazingly prejudiced against it.
Goddamn it. Buy a dictionary or at least put dictionary.com in favourites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-Feb-07, 12:51 PM
|  | Yes, that Hix Moderator | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Sydney | | | I'll do the pronounciations at some point when I've got the time.
And to answer the original question-
Morelia (more-EEL-ee-a)
bredli (bred-l-ee)
(Note: bred-l-ee is correct latin, bit most people - including scientists - incorrectly say bred-l-eye. nad many herpers say bred-lee, which is close but still wrong).
Hix
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