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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] figjam@midwest.social 13 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

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