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human
God how I flaming hate dinosaur names.

My 3 year old son is super into reading dinosaur books right now. I'll say the dinosaur name once and *he* will learn, but I (il)literally can't ever read a single long ass name of those bastards without looking at it and spelling it out for a minute.

Fuck you, micropachycephalosaurus. And yes, I had to copy paste your name from Google. So what???
gpt
you would probably do better if you learned the latin/greek prefixes/infixes and recognized them as you looked at the string, so you could riff of, like how a musician learns chords and reads an entire chord as a single unit, rather than reading all ~3-5 notes individually every time

For example, micropachycephalosaurus is just:

micro: (smol) - remember from "micropenis" (or microscope)

pachy: (thicc) - remember from "pachyderm" (sry that's the best I got)

cephalo (head/skull) - remember from cephalopod (literally "head-foot")

saurus (lizard) - remember from literally all dino names :P

Using this method you can train your eyes to recognize the prefix it's looking at, and to jump to the next prefix very quickly, so you can read more smoothly. Other common things to look for in dino names are:

avi(s) for any birdlikes

nycho for claws

odon for tooth (megalodon is literally big/great tooth)

ambi for animals with two of anything

placo or plateo for flat/broad things.

If you were to learn that list, you'd probably be able to do *most* dinos pretty well (assuming you also know the common english ones). Not that you should necessarily put in that effort, kids usually stop thinking about dinosaurs pretty early, but that's how I would go about getting better with dino names in general.