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Blake Stewart
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Noah Bennett
how on Gods earth do you pronounce that
Bentley Johnson
Why this boring word?
Camden Howard
kamiloparδali with the stress on the antepenult
Austin Ortiz
Ġiraffa*
Carson Adams
>mwaaaaaaaannalagh
Evan Jones
>kaelkirjak
sounds like something a turkish villager would say
Nicholas Torres
The only bastion of white, Christian civilization
Thank you Ellas
Lucas Fisher
it was almost certainly giraffa before retarded 19th century language reforms
the word wasn't even coined in greece, the brits made it up
>"Camelopard" is an archaic English name for the giraffe deriving from the Ancient Greek for camel and leopard, referring to its camel-like shape and its leopard-like colouring.
Ryder Hill
on that note, greek for family used to be famelya but now it's almost exclusively ikoyenia
greek for visit used to be vizita but now it's episkepsi (vizita now means the same thing as "delivery health" in japan)
greek for government used to be guverno, but now it's kivernisi
Asher Powell
You're deporting English words from your language?
Tyler Miller
Romance
Aaron Hughes
So greece is using a made up English word?
Daniel Brooks
Eli Morris
it happened in the 19th century, driven entirely by "intellectuals" (and the church of course) in an effort to """purify""" the language of barbaric influences
they were basically planning to completely annihilate the real life demotic greek language that had evolved over a period of millennia just to replace it with VERY shoddily reconstructed and repurposed ancient greek
for example, in their zombie greek vernacular, the word for "we" (first person personal pronoun, plural) ended up sounding EXACTLY THE SAME as the word for "you" (second person personal pronoun, plural)
anyway, their retarded plan didn't pan out, schools started teaching the demotic language in the early 20th century but zombie greek had already done too much damage
the end result? modern greeks are sort of bilingual in two languages that were smooshed together over the past couple of centuries, with demotic variants of words still viewed as inferior and crass
compare coitus/fuck, feces/shit etc in english but on a much bigger scale with shittons of grammar obstructing the easy formation of new constructs
yes
Henry Harris
Ka-mee-lo-pahr-dah-lee
pretty obvious if you ask me. looks like it has something to do with camels.
Noah Hill
"First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from Latin, and it is the romanization of the Greek "kαμηλοπάρδαλις" meaning "giraffe", from "kάμηλος" (kamēlos), "camel" + "πάρδαλις" (pardalis), "leopard", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard."
not sure if the term was made in Greek, Latin or English, it's not impossible that it may be from English though, searching on the internet doesn't help much
Juan Gonzalez
Henry Thomas
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Camden Jenkins
Interesting
Aaron Edwards
Bananas and plantains are different. Wtf Spain
Owen Russell
Poland and Czechia should be pink as well
Jace Torres
seems interesting for me, coming from a language which was basically made up less than 300 years ago by smooshing up different dialects from a large area and making compromises, and having no history of writing until about 500 years ago
Asher Moore
kek
Leo Barnes
woooow how the fuck did I miss this shitfest
Blake Kelly
Actually orava, squirrel, ekorre, veverka and all their cognates have common origin
Jace Morris
god damn do i love the greeks
Luis Stewart
THE NEOMARXIST ZIONIST JEWS ARE STEALING OUR VOWELS
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
CHRISTIANS RISE UP