Do you keep mispronouncing history stuff because you read things long before you hear someone say the word?
The way Anglos pronounce these things is not anywhere near "correct" anyway so I am not too worried about it. In my native language it is no issue since pronunciation is deterministic.
>>18253572I realised how many Ancient Greek and Roman names I pronounced wrong whenever I said them in front of my classics professor to my embarrassment
>>18253572Does it count as mispronouncing a word if you pronounce it in the way that is generally accepted today, but differs from the way it was likely pronounced historically?Because I know that Caesar was supposedly pronounced more like Kaiser in Roman times, but I still pronounce is the normal way.
>>18253572Everything is a translation of a translation. Obsessively butchering ancient languages comes off as pretentious. Just go by whatever it's called in your native tongue.
>>18253572All the time.
sorry but I will not be saying tackytus
>>18253934But what pronunciation sounds cooler for Cappadocia - Cappadokia or Cappadosha.
>>18253572M8, I do that with the English language all the time. Only very recently did I found out it is pronnounced tEEEr, not TIE-R
Think the move is to adopt the least distracting pronunciation once you're exposed to multiple. Also think sometimes people do it intentionally to signal autodidacticism. I'm going to accuse Chris Langan of this.
The battle of suckygayhara
I heard someone pronounce Telemachus as Telly-mack-us the other day and reconsidered my entire life.
>>18253937This. I always figured in my past life I spoke Latin because people can murder the English language and it's syntax and I still get it, but I don't really care anyway. People are stupid and annoying.
>>18254580How do you pronounce it?
