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They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Greek is nothing like Latin.

Greek is my first language and Ive (tried to) read Latin, unsuccessfully, meaning no words maake sense to me when I view them from the perspective of "this word could have this greek word as a root"

Edit: This should hopefully put a rest to this discussion

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, after about 1000 years even the exact same language normally will change so much that it's not understandable to speakers on opposing sides of that divide. I can't read much German, but in reality German and English are very related and with some explanation one can see it pretty clearly. I agree with your sentiment I think, but "nothing like" is pretty absolute.

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