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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by brunoborges on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#47881549)
Every scientific battle is worth fighting for!
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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by psychoslave on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:43PM (#47881641)
Scientific study of languages generally admits that language drift eventually.
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Re:Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge by whyenot on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:32PM (#47882344)
What is scientific about this pronunciation? Axolotl is not the scientfic name (its Ambystoma mexicanum), and usually the goal with pronouncing scientific names is for the listener to be able to spell the name after hearing it (at least for botany, which is what I am familiar with).
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