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Post by lio99 on Feb 1, 2011 9:44:46 GMT
The real name is giganotosaurus (Jig-o-not osaurus) but some books call it gigantosaurus (Jiy-gant-osaurus) so i think those people on't no much about dinosaurs.
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Post by DinoLord on Feb 1, 2011 13:14:45 GMT
Gigantosaurus is an obscure sauropod from England. Unfortunately, the mixing up of it with a South American theropod is way too common.
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Post by Megaraptor on Feb 2, 2011 3:30:18 GMT
Well, the pronunciation is actually giga-noto-saur-us. And I think most people here would know that, unless a kind parent created an account for their toddler under their name.
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 2, 2011 4:09:34 GMT
Manners, if you please, Mr Megaraptor.  Incidentally, I pronounce it with a soft 'g', as in 'jig' myself.  Is this incorrect? |
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Post by simon on Feb 2, 2011 4:57:25 GMT
Manners, if you please, Mr Megaraptor. Incidentally, I pronounce it with a soft 'g', as in 'jig' myself. Is this incorrect? With English NOT being a phonetic language I don't think there is a single "right" way to pronounce it. Any letter can have different sounds in English, so any of those variations are technically permissible (though one way usually becomes the preferred way to say it.) Put another way - Is the "G" in "Giganotosaurus" like the "G" in 'JIGSAW' or the "G" in ."GEIGERCOUNTER"? Or maybe the "G" in "GIANT"? "Jig" seems to be the accepted way to say it (at least that's how the paleontologists on the various Discovery shows pronounced it.) Me, I've always pronounced it with the "g" sounding like the "g" in "Geiger-counter" ["Geih-gah-noto-saurus"]..... and I'm not gonna change because "Jiganotosaurus" sounds so .... LAME. There. I said it.  |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 2, 2011 5:02:41 GMT
 Well, the language geek in me would have prefered 'Jye-gan', but as you say, as far as I've heard, 'jig' seems to be the most accepted, so I went with that. |
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Post by simon on Feb 2, 2011 5:11:30 GMT
Well, the language geek in me would have prefered 'Jye-gan', but as you say, as far as I've heard, 'jig' seems to be the most accepted, so I went with that. I guess my non-conformist side is coming out here. ;D BTW, I think the people who (mis)spelled the name as Gigantosaurus are the same maroons who used to write on the school desks when I was a kid "Led Zepplin!!!" instead of "Lead Zeppelin"... .... |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Feb 2, 2011 14:42:25 GMT
Manners, if you please, Mr Megaraptor. Incidentally, I pronounce it with a soft 'g', as in 'jig' myself. Is this incorrect? With English NOT being a phonetic language I don't think there is a single "right" way to pronounce it. Any letter can have different sounds in English, so any of those variations are technically permissible (though one way usually becomes the preferred way to say it.) Put another way - Is the "G" in "Giganotosaurus" like the "G" in 'JIGSAW' or the "G" in ."GEIGERCOUNTER"? Or maybe the "G" in "GIANT"? "Jig" seems to be the accepted way to say it (at least that's how the paleontologists on the various Discovery shows pronounced it.) Me, I've always pronounced it with the "g" sounding like the "g" in "Geiger-counter" ["Geih-gah-noto-saurus"]..... and I'm not gonna change because "Jiganotosaurus" sounds so .... LAME. There. I said it. That it does. That it does... |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Feb 2, 2011 14:42:43 GMT
Well, the pronunciation is actually giga-noto-saur-us. And I think most people here would know that, unless a kind parent created an account for their toddler under their name. heh ;D |
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Post by Horridus on Feb 2, 2011 16:48:41 GMT
Have always pronounced 'Giga' as in 'Gigabye' rather than 'Gigantic'. I don't think it particularly matters - as long as you can spell it and people know what you're talking about!
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Post by simon on Feb 3, 2011 0:23:54 GMT
You say to-may-to and I say toh-mah-to, .....
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Post by takama on Nov 12, 2011 20:43:38 GMT
Gigantosaurus is an obscure sauropod from England. Unfortunately, the mixing up of it with a South American theropod is way too common.    This book of mine must be very confused then. Thanks to this book, i always believed that Gigantosaurus was the real big theropod while growing up, and i got it mixed up with Giganotosaurus. now i have this book to blame for it. I also think that the names are getting mixed up in popular culture. Because In the making of feturete for 2008s Journey to the center of the earth. They refer to its only dinosaur as a gigantosaurus. Then again, they could of just called it that, because it was just a huge dinosaur in the film. |
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Post by dinoguy2 on Nov 13, 2011 13:18:55 GMT
Unfortunately, you don't necessarily have to know much about dinosaurs to publish a dinosaur book  "Gigantosaurus" "Therapoda" (mispelling of Theropoda) "England" (it's from Argentina) "Late Jurassic" (it's Late Cretaceous) Almost nothing in this one short paragraph is correct. I hope the rest of this book isn't as horrendous as that. But the fact Theropod is also misspelled in the page header doesn't' give me much hope. I wonder if they even got permission to use any of that artwork. What's the name of the book? It bothers me when people complain about the accuracy of Wikipedia and say books are more accurate, when there are books like this out there. If the author of the book had read Wiki, he might have been able to correct some of those errors! |
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Post by takama on Nov 15, 2011 18:30:54 GMT
The name of the book is simply
"The big book of Dinosaurs"
to be more specific the illustrater was Bob Walters
and its written by Don Glut and Gil King
and it was first puplished in 2001
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Post by arioch on Nov 15, 2011 18:44:03 GMT
Must be the same people involved in the Humongous book of Dinosaurs! ;D
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Post by Horridus on Nov 15, 2011 18:48:07 GMT
Must be the same people involved in the Humongous book of Dinosaurs! ;D Hell no! That book was just a compilation of magazines from the early '90s and they were never THAT confused! (I know you were joking. But still.) |
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Post by arioch on Nov 15, 2011 19:46:26 GMT
You´d be surprised at the things I´ve found there (Velociraptor chasing Kuehneosaurus? for instance)...but you´re right, they rarely went this far.
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Post by Horridus on Nov 15, 2011 19:55:44 GMT
I've just noticed something else. "Size: Very large." Haha. In other words: "Um. We don't know. Big?"
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Post by bowheadwhale on Nov 16, 2011 19:43:10 GMT
Manners, if you please, Mr Megaraptor. Incidentally, I pronounce it with a soft 'g', as in 'jig' myself. Is this incorrect? With English NOT being a phonetic language I don't think there is a single "right" way to pronounce it. Any letter can have different sounds in English, so any of those variations are technically permissible (though one way usually becomes the preferred way to say it.) Put another way - Is the "G" in "Giganotosaurus" like the "G" in 'JIGSAW' or the "G" in ."GEIGERCOUNTER"? Or maybe the "G" in "GIANT"? "Jig" seems to be the accepted way to say it (at least that's how the paleontologists on the various Discovery shows pronounced it.) Me, I've always pronounced it with the "g" sounding like the "g" in "Geiger-counter" ["Geih-gah-noto-saurus"]..... and I'm not gonna change because "Jiganotosaurus" sounds so .... LAME. There. I said it. Anyway, since HMHS Gigantic was rebaptised HMHS Britannic, maybe we should say "BRITANNOSAURUS".  ;D |
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Post by Horridus on Nov 16, 2011 20:08:12 GMT
Brittanosaurus would clearly have to be the name of a genus of giant pliosaur.
"Rule, Brittanosaurus/Brittanosaurus rules the waves..."
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Is this incorrect? 
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