In English, it’s a matter of honor to mangle foreign loan words, unless you’re the kind of twit who pedantically pronounces foreign words as though you’re not speaking English, but the language of origin. That’s most common with French loanwords, since French was once considered higher-prestige than English. But I’ve even heard people attempting to pronounce Arabic words like that, despite having no idea of Arabic phonology or case inflection, with ridiculous results.
There are no Greek C’s. With Greek loanwords into Latin, “k” was mapped to Latin “c.” Then the pronunciation of “c” diverged, with the Catholic Church adopting the Italianate pronunciation of the letter “c” in the Middle Ages, which was not the preferred pronunciation in classical Latin. We know how Latin was pronounced because the Romans actually wrote guidebooks for newly-assimilated Romans on how to speak proper Latin. That’s also how we know that “r” was trilled or rolled-- the guidance was “make it sound like a dog growling.”
Even English has wide variations in how diphthongs are pronounced. I’m living in southwestern England, and the old boys pronounce the sounds in diphthongs almost separately: “boy” is two syllables: “bwooey.” But like regional dialects everywhere, that’s fading in the younger generation.
I see that your dialect pronounces “pen” and “pin” the same. Midwestern US?
The third way would be a difference in how the diphthong is pronounced: “-aur” or “-ower.”
Me too. I’m not a pedantic Latin-pronouncer who’d say “ken-tower”
I bet it would shock you to find out that the existence or lack thereof of an Abrahamic god is irrelevant to me.
I’m not shocked, because based on your posts, I have no reason to care what you think.
“Then get thee behind me, Satan, but don’t stop that reacharound!”
it is a niche version of Calvinism that is only common in the USA
Due to their fondness for finding new suckers, it’s now common in much of the Christian world, especially Mexico, Central America, Korea and some parts of Africa. Also, the source population for the spread of this contagion to the New World, the Protestants in Northern Ireland, have maintained relations with US fundies and many have adopted broadly similar beliefs.
If I could slap the shit out of any man in history he’s in my top two.
Likewise. It’s amazing how much Calivin’s followers, when in power, ruled just like the Taliban. He was a power-mad bloodless berk full of hatred for life.
like a religious studies PhD designed the most anti-Christian form of Christianity
More like some semi-literate huckster looking for a fatter income stream than he was getting from his holy-roller flock of rubes.
Jesus didn’t talk about wealth inequality in that way, as far as wealth being bad.
He flat-out said, if you’re rich in this life, you’ve had your reward already and you won’t get into heaven.
easier to pass through the eye of a needle
Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle…
Some bootlickers go through ridiculous contortions to avoid the plain sense of this analogy: “The Eye of the Needle was a gate in Jerusalem!” (That excuse was a late medieval fabrication by an indulgence-selling cleric craving donations from aristocrats-- there’s no such gate and never was, and if there was one, the saying would make no sense).
“The rich are passing down superior wealth just as they pass down superior genes.”
It’s all a crock of shit, but I’ve met people who believe it.
No thinking was involved. She was repeating something she heard on fascist media.
Equating all Jewish people with the fascist apartheid regime is in itself antisemitic
Arguably true.
and the number one cause of antisemitism in the world
No, that’s right-wing nationalism, including fascism.
We didn’t lock into Biden and that’s why we now have Trump.
Are you implying Biden would have won?
DNC wants to
DNC says it wants to…
That’s something entirely different. When the Dems have had the votes, they didn’t deliver. Just like Trump, ignore the words, look at the actions.
Oh, that’ll really help.
Somewhere in DC, there’s a speedbump that they should name after Biden.
Wait, I thought that was proven conclusively years ago.
In ancient Greek, as best we can tell. The “i” is more like “ee” as well. In English, it’s “die-no-sore” unless you’re non-rhotic, and if you are, then piss off, you posh ponce.