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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[-] figjam@midwest.social 9 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.

[-] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Similar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced 'caus'

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg

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