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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg

[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.