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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

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