Doing a project on the coelacanth, and I wanted to know if I'm pronouncing it's scientific name right.

Latimeria chalumnae is the name, and I'm saying it Lata-mear-e-uh cha-loom-nay. Would that be right?

 

Can you smoke it?

 

Mrs Palmer, my Latin I teacher a long time ago, would be proud of you. You got it right, lad.

 

Ha, if you want dry and salt it first. It's body constantly releases an oil that just so happens to be a laxative.

 

Alright, sweet, thanks.

 

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and on a side note... Latin rocks! arins gonna minor in it in college and major in mechanical engineering my latin teacher is the coolest teacher ever! he can teach amazing well and is still just a cool dude to be around.

and plus he's got cool hair like arin AND he likes the niners! booyah!

 

Sorry, but I have to disagree. Latin is not pronounced like English and the way most Latin and Biology teachers pronounce it is incorrect. I speak Romanian and Italian and those are the 2 closest present languages to Latin.
Here we go: let's use "é" for a short "e" like in Ted. Second, the accented syllable is written in capitals. In conclusion, the correct pronounciation is:

Latimeria = La-tea-MÉ-ree-ah
Chalumnae = Ka-LOOM-né

You're welcome!

P.S.: it's a fish, so I guess you can smoke it!

 

 

Hahaha, thank you Louie. I'll look into it.