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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg