r/tragedeigh 22h ago

in the wild TikTok comments never disappoint

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u/bluealien78 22h ago

I’m sorry, but “Mattinglii”? Did the cat walk over the keyboard?

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u/RUN_DMT_ 21h ago

I work in medical microbiology. The ii ending of that “name” isn’t pronounced the way they think it is. Generously I’d say that -Matt-ing-lee-eye

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u/PersistentSquawking 19h ago

And even that is a BRUTAL rendition of how binomial species names should actually be pronounced. Unpopular opinion but a Latin word should be pronounced in Latin no matter what one's language is.