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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•6 hours agoI was 12 and believed chaos was ‘cha-os’ because I’d only ever seen it written.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•16 minutes agoHad a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 hour agoSimilar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced ‘caus’
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•6 hours agoThat’s probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 hours agoWait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-21 hour 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]linkfedilink1•edit-227 minutes agoBehold, the original Kronenbourg monster.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-25 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.
Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.
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.
Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.
It’s “kaos” in (“classic”) latin bcs it’s copypasta from Greek.
wikipedia/Chaos.ogg