How did this single letter destroy all Roman public virtue and the mos maiorum?
How did this single letter destroy all Roman public virtue and the mos maiorum?
Asher Smith
Oliver Scott
explain
Lincoln Rodriguez
Alaric: Rome gib land
Rome: "No"
Alaric: K.
Ayden Flores
Hellenization ruined Rome
Jacob Williams
But all the letters are Greek.
Parker Morgan
adapted greek
Brayden White
Yeah, but the A's an A, and the B's a B, so who cares if K is K for Greek words?
I'm also curious as to what happened to Phi, because F is a Greek letter denoting the Wuh sound, Wau, but the Romans used it for the phi sound.
Sebastian Gomez
At the time Φ made an aspirated p sounds, contrasted with the unaspirated p of π. F (waw) was used in Etruscan for the V sounds which was then devoiced to the f sound in Latin
Logan Ross
So phi didn't make the fuh sound, it made the aspirated P, like the sort we have in English, while pi made that gay unaspirated p sound it makes today in Greek
Aiden Davis
It's the K hater again.
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Jaxon Thompson
English does not have any aspirated consonants. The closest English comes is when a 'h' is pronounced immediately after, e.g.
> hop house
> hob house
> hot house
These said quickly come close enough to the aspirated p-h, b-h, t-h. Greek pi is the same as normal English 'p'.
Chase Torres
>the aspirated P, like the sort we have in English
Do you even know what aspirated means?
Aaron James
Yes it it does
Say "pot" and "spot"
Mason Ramirez
Not aspirated.
Aaron Reed
You're either not a native speaker or are trying real hard not to aspirate it
Justin Carter
REMOVE GREEK remove greek you are dog filth u can live in field with macedonian cousin ahahah EPIRUS WE WILL GET YOU!!!!
Asher Mitchell
I am native, and pronouncing it perfectly normally.
The air ejected from the mouth when pronouncing those words is the normal ejection for any consonant. I think you're underestimating how relatively forceful aspirated consonants are.
Nathaniel Hill
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One does, or should, not say p-hot, or sp-hot. These are unaspirated mutes.
Cooper Taylor
You clearly don't know what you're talking about, or you'd know why I brought up pot vs spot. It's commonly known that stops at the beginning of English words are aspirated which is why you should notice a difference when saying pot and spot (or stop and top or spy and pie).
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Landon Gonzalez
Fair enough. I admit I'm wrong here.
But 'p' is still not an aspirated consonant per se, only by initial position.
Wyatt Cooper
But rome was similar to greek culture before they conquered them
Christian Morales
It acts as an aspirated consonant in the initial position, so it is. The fact that we use the letter P to represent it is just a hold over from its romantic origin.