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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•5 hours agoI was 12 and believed chaos was ‘cha-os’ because I’d only ever seen it written.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•24 minutes agoSimilar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced ‘caus’
minus-square@Agent641link5•5 hours agoThat’s probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•47 minutes agoWait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
minus-square@Agent641link1•edit-23 minutes agoOh, 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-24 hours agoIt’s “kaos” in (“classic”) latin bcs it’s copypasta from Greek. wikipedia/Chaos.ogg
I was 12 and believed chaos was ‘cha-os’ because I’d only ever seen it written.
Similar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced ‘caus’
That’s probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
Wait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
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.
It’s “kaos” in (“classic”) latin bcs it’s copypasta from Greek.
wikipedia/Chaos.ogg