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MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Axolotl doesn’t rhyme with Aristotle?

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  • CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    TIL

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• YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  but you just pronounced it the way I do

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• kindenough@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Axoloteles?

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  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretty sure that’s Aristotle. But apparently the plural in Nahuatl is axolomeh so it doesn’t work either

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    • kindenough@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ἀριστοτλ? His name is Ἀριστοτέλης. Totélēsly different...

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      • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Haha well the English have already butchered that name with the new spelling. They can have their pronunciation

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• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not how that works… Things change between languages. It makes perfect sense for common English pronunciation.

  Hell things change in the same language.

  Language is based on common use.

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• AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I thought it was pronounced “Socrates”

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wrong guy.

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    • AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      woosh.jpg

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  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So-crates?

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