What is it with Americans butchering every word they come across?
Pronouncing Caesar as [see-zar] is completely fine, insisting that the correct pronunciation is like the German word "Kaiser", is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Next thing you know, some fat fuck tries to explain that the C in Latin is always a hard K. Surprise, it's not.
Same thing with other words like connoisseur (instead of connaisseur), aluminum (instead of aluminium) and many more. Some words are literally just pronounced in a completely different way for no apparent reason like Colonel.
All language is universally like that. There's no purity and never was. visit any country and you'll find local slang and bad pronunciation.
Andrew Carter
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Jordan Wilson
Wrong, moron. It is pronounced like kaiser. The Latin c is a hard c.
Nicholas Turner
yeah with america being a melting pot, and our English having so many borrowed terms pronounced by different immigrants, it'd be hard to require everyone to speak the Queen's English yknow
Gabriel Ortiz
This. Also Classical Latin hasn’t been spoken in about 1600 years. Ecclesiastical Latin is all we have to go on for the phonology and it’s as corrupt as any other dialect
Tyler Kelly
Somefags say it’s supposed to sound like: kai-a-sir But again, who really knows what it sounded like in 50 BC
Jayden Thompson
True. We don’t know what Roman era Latin sounded like. We know church Latin. We do know some things about the language though. V’s sounded like w. C sounded like K.
Adrian Barnes
>kaiser. kai'-sar >The Latin c is a hard c. For classical Latin, that is correct. Lenition began early, however, as we know from Catullus: CHOMMODA dicebat, si quando commoda uellet dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, (Carmen LXXXIV)
Evan Nelson
That's not true. There are meetings every year for the express purpose of communicating in classical Latin.
