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Reality you can't find in fiction (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

kak·i·sto·cra·cy

noun

Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

On behalf of all the Welsh people I know would you have a problem with “cac” rather than the Dutch based (?) “kak” in this word?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

"Kak" is from Greek. "Cac" is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in "cacophony" or

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. I know “kak” from Afrikaans and “cachu” from Welsh. I’ve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I looked up the Dutch "kak" and that's pretty funny. It means "bad" in Greek, but the Dutch meaning still works great - rule by the shittiest people.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Yeah - I assumed “shit (people)” was what we were going for; “k” doesn’t exist in Welsh so I asked for the alt spelling. Cacophony then translated as “shit sound” in my head - which again, kind of, works. Language is difficult.

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