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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg