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shemtay
255 days ago
Words of Latin origin are identifiable at a glance, and homonymic collisions are thereby avoided
-- Caeser, seizer of the day
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user982
255 days ago
"Caesar" was pronounced in Latin with a hard C, which is preserved in German ("Kaiser").
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magarnicle
255 days ago
And
v
is pronounced like
w
, but people look at you funny if you pronounce
vice versa
"wikay wersa".
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sapphicsnail
254 days ago
I made someone with a veni vidi vici tattoo when I told him that.
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