We had aeon mag, now we have aero mag. What's next? Aether mag?
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I think it's the primacy of how things sound maybe? Does English have -ai-?
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I doubt it's a simple answer. Bearing in mind I'm a bilingual from my first words, I can assure you there's no single simple rule or explanation. In English the way we say words like Thucydides is in no way similar to Greek, for example.
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Just trying to think out loud with you! As a bi/trilingual i share the sentiment - I just enjoy musing about how weird language is
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Yeah! Totally. Just wanted to clarify. Wanna know a cool one? Oeconomics! It's now become economics of course but in Greek it very much is οικονομικά. That iota becoming an e and the o being dropped to conform more to Modern Greek pronunciation as well as English.
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My gut is that Romans came up with the "classic" mappings from Greek to Latin characters.
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But that doesn't explain why skeuomorph or skeptic are spelled with a k. These must be for Americans to help them pronounce them correctly.
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There are horribly confusing Modern Greek to English transliterations which violate all these rules for people's names and placenames. It's very upsetting.
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It's confusing since we have i in English. To add confusion even more ει in Greek becomes i in English. So ειδωλολατρία becomes idolatry. I can't take it.

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To be clear it also loses a syllable for some reason.
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