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I'm not a native English speaker, I speak several languages, I am from Europe, I am interested in etymology, I studied Latin and a tiny bit of Ancient Greek and
by simias 6y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, I speak several languages, I am from Europe, I am interested in etymology, I studied Latin and a tiny bit of Ancient Greek and still didn't know what Pleroma was before I read your comment.
Making it sound like ponker is an illiterate idiot (and playing on the "uneducated American" trope to boot) for not knowing the meaning of Pleroma is frankly arrogant IMO.
Maybe "pleroma" is in more common use in your language but it definitely isn't in many others, and not just for those silly English monolinguals.
- romanoderoma 6y ago> (and playing on the "uneducated American" trope to boot That wasn't my intention I literally meant "never heard of" If you never heard of something, you're not used to how it sounds. The original poster criticized the branding before knowing the meaning, I explained the meaning and why it is not as bad as it may sounds to someone used to associate "oma" with cancer - which appears a lot in US pop culture, it's a cultural thing, I never implied ignorance - It's the same thing of Gimp, but on the opposite side, I still pronounce it the Italian way with the soft G as in "jim" and it doesn't bother me, while it reminds pulp fiction's gimp to native speakers (also: I've watched the movie in original language years later it came out) Finally, to be completely honest, being from Rome I am biased and everything that ends in "Roma" sounds nice to me, I see the name of my city, not the suffix "oma".