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There’s plenty of Greeks in Greece she could ask. Why would the ancient Greek pronunciation be relevant? The ancient Greeks knew nothing of COVID-19.
by zarzavat 5y ago
There’s plenty of Greeks in Greece she could ask. Why would the ancient Greek pronunciation be relevant? The ancient Greeks knew nothing of COVID-19.
- pjmlp 5y agoGiven how much I can explain about how to pronounce Archaic Portuguese, even with two high school terms analyzing "Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer" [0], I doubt fellow Greeks have much knowledge how it used to be pronounced during the heyday of Latin as European common language. Sure anyone can explain how to say it today, and even that changes between mainland and the islands. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician-Portuguese_lyric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician-Portuguese_lyric
- AllegedAlec 5y agoGo ask your average Burger to read the original Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and figure out if they know how to pronounce it. Ask the same of a Dutchman and Van Den Vos Reynaerde, or any other people and their ancient texts, barring perhaps Icelandic people.
- Smaug123 5y agoThey did know how to pronounce letters of their alphabet, though. "O-micron", as opposed to "O-mega".
- denton-scratch 5y agoYes, that is my understanding; they are "little-o" and "big-o". But then why isn't the latter pronounced "oh-MEG-er"?
- denton-scratch 5y agoBeard was saying how the ancients pronounced the name of that letter, not how the ancients pronounced the name of the 2021 pandemic variant.