Thread 24663288

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Anonymous 8/23/2025, 6:43:19 PM No.24663288 >>24663293 >>24663335 >>24663540 >>24664168 >>24664724 >>24665524 >>24665675 >>24665707

Why did anglos butcher Greek philosophers' names?

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Aristotélēs = Aristurtle
Plátōn = Playdo

wtf is wrong with them?

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 6:45:55 PM No.24663293 >>24664159

>>24663288 (OP)
english is a bastard language

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 7:05:50 PM No.24663335 >>24664026

>>24663288 (OP)
don't forget the biggest flub of all: Jesus

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 7:09:02 PM No.24663342

>Seezer

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 7:30:34 PM No.24663385

Only Americans call him Play-Dough, to be fair.

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 8:22:34 PM No.24663540 >>24664038 >>24664086

>>24663288 (OP)
Muh anglos
Meanwhile in French it’s “Aristote”

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:19:02 PM No.24664026

>>24663335
>Cheese-us

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:21:30 PM No.24664038 >>24664047

>>24663540
Meanwhile in Spanish it's Aristóteles and Platón and Plotino and Boecio

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:25:16 PM No.24664047 >>24664098

>>24664038
In German it's Aristoteles and Platon.

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:35:09 PM No.24664086

>>24663540
I didn't expect any better from a language that somehow turned "aqua" into "eau".

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:37:18 PM No.24664098 >>24665578

>>24664047
You can also say Plato in German

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:50:41 PM No.24664159 >>24664190

>>24663293
Yet you're speaking it, curious

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:52:16 PM No.24664168

>>24663288 (OP)
>say something in classical or ecclesiastical Latin
>amerimutt corrects me because he thinks the anglicized pronunciation is the correct one

Anonymous 8/23/2025, 10:56:05 PM No.24664190

>>24664159
Because he would get banned if he didn’t

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 1:49:33 AM No.24664724

>>24663288 (OP)
They also butchered the Gods' names, e.g. Zeus becomes Jew Peter.

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 1:53:24 AM No.24664732 >>24665707

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>pie-tá-guh-ras

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 1:54:20 AM No.24664734 >>24664749

>you reepeedees

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 1:59:10 AM No.24664749

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>>24664734

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 2:11:03 AM No.24664771

How are you supposed to pronounce euripedes

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 7:46:03 AM No.24665524

>>24663288 (OP)
God knows. I don’t. Why does anyone do or say anything? Why did your mother give birth to you?

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 8:19:09 AM No.24665578

>>24664098
Yea but that's cringe

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:14:05 AM No.24665658 >>24665661

English is the best, I dont know greek but with latin you could see check out this site you can input a line and have different nationalities read it.
https://elevenlabs.io/
Also this is my favorite pronunciation of classical text
https://ia601600.us.archive.org/24/items/bellum_gallicum_1210_librivox/bellumgallicum_15_caesar.mp3

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:16:29 AM No.24665661 >>24665679

>>24665658
English isn't even the best Germanic language

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:24:32 AM No.24665675 >>24665691

>>24663288 (OP)
Alcibiades is the worst example

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:27:09 AM No.24665679

>>24665661
germanic pronunciation isnt much different from any of the more spanish sounding pronunciations, only english is really unique

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:38:23 AM No.24665691

>>24665675
Alcibiades nuts!

Anonymous 8/24/2025, 9:50:15 AM No.24665707

>>24664732
>>24663288 (OP)
Frog posters should be drawn and quartered.