It's a diaresis, it's telling you you have to say the second A as its own syllable instead of the double-A meaning one long vowel (In English you're supposed to say her name as "Naw-sick-AY-uh", it's not "Naw-sick-ahh" like so many people say it)
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Ironically, in Greek, they probably would have elided it some, and it definitely wouldn’t be a vowel that would have have sounded like a long a to a modern English speaker, since that would be an eta rather than the two alphas in her name.
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Well yeah Like the thing in The Good Place where Chidi asks Hypatia if she minds being called "high-PAY-shuh" and not "ooh-POT-ee-ah" and she just shrugs and says she's Patty now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EpicCaraCorder and
The Great Vowel Shift makes fools of all of us Anglophones when trying to pronounce other languages The movie 300 did in fact have a historical consultant, whose sole attempt at insisting on a point of accuracy was to try to get them to say "Lay-oh-NEE-das" not "Lay-on-NYE-das"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EpicCaraCorder and
He said they spent a long time on this and Gerard Butler just went ahead and said it the second way anyway and that was that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EpicCaraCorder and
One thing from my childhood that surprised me was learning that the "wrong" names my Christian parents used for Biblical figures in Mandarin were in fact way more accurate to the original Hebrew than the English names I thought of as "correct"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EpicCaraCorder and
Because the introduction of Christianity to China is relatively recent and was done by Jesuits who were stickers for accuracy So "Jesus" (Yeshua) is "Ye-shu", "Moses" (Moishe) is "Mo-she", "David" (Daoud) is "Da-wu", etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
the jews beat christians to china though, by several centuries?
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*Contact* between China and Christianity happened long before the Jesuits too - the Russian churches in the North were the equivalent of embassies - but these transliterations came out of the first period of aggressive Christian evangelism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
right, there were also like...nestorians in the seventh century?
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