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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's "kaos" in ("classic") latin bcs it's copypasta from Greek.

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh, just in general. English is the cronenburg monster of languages and pronunciation. We will steal your words, pronounce them weirdly, use them wrongly, and claim they've always been ours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.