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Next, Greece will charge Amazonas royalties for using their brand, since the Amazons were ancient Greek myths.
by reissbaker 3y ago
Next, Greece will charge Amazonas royalties for using their brand, since the Amazons were ancient Greek myths.
- FredPret 3y agoIf Greece starts doing this, they can levy a tax on most things in the Western world!
- dontupvoteme 3y agoBetter yet, just a tiny 1-2% tax on any project, program or company that ever used anything Greek as a codename. Keeps you under the radar
- FredPret 3y agoPlus a usage tax on Greek-derived words!
- hardlianotion 3y agoand/or mathematical notation.
- tomrod 3y agoOracle, Delphi, Minotaur, Ikarus, what else?
- FredPret 3y agoI feel like almost every European word has a Greek root deep down. Even the Latin ones sometimes come from Greek.
- ninjaranter 3y agoAlpha, Beta etc :)
- mr_toad 3y agoKerberos
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- SilasX 3y agoI like that idea, but more because it would discourage oh-so-clever names for projects.
- ketralnis 3y agoAnd anything in Beta
- dylan604 3y agoI think you just solved the financial issues for the entire Greek economy
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- gerdesj 3y agoWell yes but it cuts both ways. "Greece" (Ελλάδα - Hellada) is not a "Greek" (Ελληνικά - Hellonika) word. Sorry if I've screwed up the transliteration, its all Greek to me! Whenever a Έλληνας (Hellonas - I think) uses the term Greek or other Anglicised word then we (whoever we are) could sue right back! Modern Greek is just as close to old or classical Greek (and that's a PHD discussion) as modern English to German or Dutch (and that's another diss.) Throw in borrow words, pidgins, creoles and that and it gets complicated very quickly. I won't deny that say, ichthphi ... (OK I searched, I can say it but not spell it) ... Ichthyophthirius is Greek derived and possibly one of the finest tongue-twisters known to man, casually thrashing physalis and the like. Closer to home, politics and other words derived from Greek (mostly an old version) are more familiar examples. Language is always a tricksy thing. When I was a child I studied Latin, French, German and English. All to a greater or lesser extent. Now I'm 50+, I actually understand some of the interplay between them. That doesn't mean that I can speak German (bit sad - I lived in West Germany for some years) but I do understand why Wegburg and Waybury look suspiciously similar. Nearly all languages these days are an amalgam. English is famous for "stealing" words but it isn't alone, by any means. Welsh borrows mercilessly from English for obvious reasons. However, what all languages have is some sort of cultural independence, be it accent, words, diacritics, alphabet, pronunciation or even sheer bloody mindedness.
- VTimofeenko 3y ago> Ichthyophthirius Anecdata, but for a native Russian speaker this is not a tongue twister at all. We borrowed quite a few letters for Cyrillic alphabet and have dedicated sounds for them. This word becomes a shorter "ихтиофтириус", which has a much nicer visual balance of vowels and consonants
- gerdesj 3y agoI'm not an expert in linguistics but I do know how my mouth and tongue works! I apologise that I can't give examples in Cyrillic. This word is roughly pronounced "ick", "thee", "oh", "fuh", "thirius". The surprising thing in English is the ph-th bit - we only see that in Greek words and perhaps some Russian or other Cyrillic based borrow words. When I look at it, we English use two letters for each of these phonemes: ph (fuh) and th (thuh). In Cyrillic I think you have a single letter: phi and theta (Greek) - I don't know the actual Russian names but it will be similar. We can say fuh/thuh in a word as consecutive phonemes but it is rare.
- robbomacrae 3y agoIncluding ChatGPT. I once asked it to choose a nickname and after a lot of attempting to block the request it said: I'll choose the nickname "Athena" for ChatGPT. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and strategic thinking, which reflects the purpose and functionality of ChatGPT as an AI language model designed to provide information and assistance. Funny how it didn't mention Athena is also the goddess of war...
- layer8 3y agoMeta should be afraid.
- everyone 3y agoAlso India should own 50% of everyone's data as they invented the zero.
- askiiart 3y agoAll software that uses /dev/zero will have to pay India royalties.
- WalterBright 3y agoThat patent expired.
- belltaco 3y agoThey also invented the numbers and numbering systems in use so that should be way higher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...