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minus-square5dashes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down10·edit-27 个月前I don’t get it. Aren’t they pronounced mostly the same?
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·7 个月前I’ll do my best here - “Aristotle” is pronounced “Air-ih-stot-ul” whereas Chipotle is more like “Chip-oat-lee”
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 个月前They did say their best. Not that it’d be correct.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 个月前Leave them southerners alone. They didn’t do nuffin 'cept try to overthrow America twice.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 个月前Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.
minus-squarearchon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 个月前Now that you mention it… he’s indeed called Aristoteles in my language… never noticed the spelling difference in english!
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 个月前Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons. Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.
minus-squareFluminaInMaria@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 个月前I know I’m furthering the immature narrative, butt:
minus-squareivanafterall@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 个月前Sounds like we did him a favor.
Which movie is the scene from?
This is from the series The Good Place.
I don’t get it. Aren’t they pronounced mostly the same?
I’ll do my best here - “Aristotle” is pronounced “Air-ih-stot-ul” whereas Chipotle is more like “Chip-oat-lee”
Um what?
Chip-oht-lay
They did say their best. Not that it’d be correct.
Leave them southerners alone. They didn’t do nuffin 'cept try to overthrow America twice.
Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.
Now that you mention it… he’s indeed called Aristoteles in my language… never noticed the spelling difference in english!
Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.
Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.
I know I’m furthering the immature narrative, butt:
Sounds like we did him a favor.
It’s “Chip-oat—lay”…not “lee”