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It's truly a shame (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it.. he's indeed called Aristoteles in my language.. never noticed the spelling difference in english!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.

Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I know I'm furthering the immature narrative, butt:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like we did him a favor.