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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 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

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

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 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.

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

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.