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[–] Agent641 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

wikipedia/Chaos.ogg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.