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Let's meet those headlines (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would also like entomologists to pronounce the insect orders properly. That 'p'? It belongs to the '-ter'. It's 'pter', for wing. As in 'coleo-ptera', the 'shield wing', not 'col-e-OP-tera'. Or 'neuro-ptera', the 'lace-wing', not 'neur-OP-tera'.

We actually put the accent on a syllable THAT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST in the Greek.

Fucking nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Helico-pter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I learned from ESLs. Sue me.