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Pythagoras’ famous theory - which has long been proven and should be made into mathematical law - will never be, because the therm ‘Pythagorean Theorem’ sounds so pleasing.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder how that is pronounced vs today. I imagine the spoken version drifts, but the sounds are more similar than the writing.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

We can't know for certain, since no audio recordings exist for obvious reasons, and we'd need a time machine to find a fluent, native speaker we can be confident is using period-correct pronunciations.

We can make educated guesses though, by deconstructing existing descendent languages and tracing back commonalities.

Here's what we've got so far:

https://youtu.be/5NB2Z6pZBNA

Also worthy of note that this sort of writing would've been distinct from daily commoner chit-chat, which would probably be more recognizable to us. Not sure how much of that got recorded and survived through the years though.

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