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[–] MicrowavedTea 35 points 4 days ago (5 children)

True, cause that's not how you pronounce axolotl

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Not how that works... Things change between languages. It makes perfect sense for common English pronunciation.

Hell things change in the same language.

Language is based on common use.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Axolotl doesn't rhyme with Aristotle?

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

but you just pronounced it the way I do

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] MicrowavedTea 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's Aristotle. But apparently the plural in Nahuatl is axolomeh so it doesn't work either

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ἀριστοτλ? His name is Ἀριστοτέλης. Totélēsly different...

[–] MicrowavedTea 4 points 3 days ago

Haha well the English have already butchered that name with the new spelling. They can have their pronunciation

[–] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought it was pronounced "Socrates"