I think I speak for everyone here, when I say 'thank you'.
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Speaking of... I'm confused a little as to how we go from αιώνας to aeon. Can anybody explain why the iota becomes an e in English? In Modern Greek it means century. In Ancient Greek probably something similar but like vague so like "big amount of time".
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To be clear it always goes from iota to e, it's not just specific to this word. BUT epsilon always becomes e in English. So αέρας is aero.
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Replying to @o_guest @krysdolega
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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Replying to @o_guest @krysdolega
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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Replying to @neuropoetic @krysdolega
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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Like Πάφος to Pafos instead of Paphos.
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