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[–] figjam@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

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