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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've only ever seen xi and xer written as memes. How are they actually pronounced?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've heard them said as either zi zer, or zhi zher. Why they chose an x for an initial letter fire a word proposed for English, I'll never understand.

I've even heard someone say them as an s, which is absolutely not what was intended for the obvious reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So do xylophone, professor Xavier, and Xanth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Twitteri and twitterer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Little Johnny is daydreaming in Latin class when the teacher calls on him to conjugate the verb they're discussing. Caught off guard, he whispers to his neighbor "Shoot, what verb are we conjugating?"

"Hell if I know"

Johnny stands up, "Helifino, helifinas, helifinat, helifinamus, helifinatis, helifinant"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats kinda cheating no? I can do én, engem, rólam, nekem, tőlem, magam, etc in hungarian. English is a bit strange with pronouns actually compared to other languages from my experience.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

Yeah but Latin pronouns are one and the same for every person of a certain gender, you don't need to associate a different set with different people. Way more complex to retain.