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MycelialMass@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

They're basically the same right?

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They're basically the same right?

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MycelialMass@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • NIB@lemmy.world
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    Latin and Greek are nowhere even similar to each other. You might as well say that Latin and German are the same language. Greek and Latin are 2 different linguistic branches of indoeuropean languages. Latin is the precursor of romance languages like Italian, French and Spanish. Ancient Greek is the precursor of Greek. Other major European language branches are the Germanic(German, English, Swedish, etc) and slavic(Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, etc).

    Cool single indoeuropean individual language branches also include Armenian, Celtic and Albanian.

    Finnish and Hungarian arent indoeuropean languages.

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    Greek is nothing like Latin.

    Greek is my first language and Ive (tried to) read Latin, unsuccessfully, meaning no words maake sense to me when I view them from the perspective of “this word could have this greek word as a root”

    Edit: This should hopefully put a rest to this discussion

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      Arent ancient and modern Greek pretty different though?

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        Yes, but you can for the most part understand ancient greek if you know greek. Ancient greek and greek are similar enough for that. Greek and latin are not.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, after about 1000 years even the exact same language normally will change so much that it’s not understandable to speakers on opposing sides of that divide. I can’t read much German, but in reality German and English are very related and with some explanation one can see it pretty clearly. I agree with your sentiment I think, but “nothing like” is pretty absolute.

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    Immediately after uploading I see the mistake. I’m not changing it. I’m just trying to get through the day.

    • oʍʇǝuoǝnu@lemmy.ca
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      It’s still all Greek to me

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    No, they’re completely different, have absolutely nothing in common. Though, yes, the Roman Empire did steal a lot of the culture from Greece.

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      deleted by creator

  • Grammaton Cleric@lemmy.world
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    Replace “language” with “mythology” and this works

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    Nobody appreciates the MS Paint in this meme:C

    • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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      Ars longa, Vista brevis.

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    It’s because of modern science-ish mixing them willynilly. They almost made a new artificial language at this point.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    They absolutely are not the same

  • mihnt@lemmy.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me

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    Angry romance noises intensify

  • Rebsalot@lemmy.world
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    They are?

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      In thoroughly confused. They’re not even similar.

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      They are in fact, not, but I always confuse them

      • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Latin looks like weird french, Greek has triangles and math symbols and shit.

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  • nevemsenki@lemmy.world
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    Eh it’s all chinese to me.

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