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promitheas, to memes in They're basically the same right?
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You and I are not related because we share a common ancestor, and no sensible person would make that claim based on that reasoning. We do draw the line somewhere. If you want to define all languages as related because they all comprise of sound and noise that humans make feel free to.

Also, if you bothered reading not skimming then jumping to conclusions, you would see I linked a couple sources, so you don’t actually have to hear it from my mouth.

promitheas, (edited ) to memes in They're basically the same right?
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Read my other comments for a more detailed explanation, but the tl;dr of the matter is that while they are both Indo-European languages, each is from a vastly different branch family of the Indo-European language family. The Hellenic and Romance branch families for Greek and Latin respectively.

Technically they are related, but technically if you go far back enough I am related to you too, however any sensible person would never make the claim that you and I are related simply because we share a common ancestor somewhere along our history.

Edit: my other comments also have sources, but I don’t want to repeat myself once more, so I wont put them here as well. :)

promitheas, (edited ) to memes in They're basically the same right?
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No they are not. They are both Indo-European but each is from a completely different branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin stems from the Romance branch, while Greek from the Hellenic branch. Other than their common “ancestor” language group, the only other similarity I can think of/find right now is that Latin did borrow many Greek words due to the Roman’s heavy influence from Hellenic culture. However, this doesn’t mean that they are at all related.

Greek itself has myriads of Turkish words due to the Ottoman occupation of the Greek lands (Greece as a nation state did not exist yet at this point if I’m not mistaken) from 1453 until 1821(almost 400 years), however it would be ridiculous to make the claim that Greek and Turkish are related, given that Turkish is an Anatolian language which only shares commonality with Greek due to the fact that they are both Indo-European branch families. Hence, it is ridiculous to make the claim that Latin is related to Greek simply because they borrowed many words.

So, linguistically speaking both Greek and Latin are from majorly different language families, and we have discussed how you can’t make the claim two languages are related simply because they borrow words from each other because of various political/historical reasons.

You are confidently incorrect.

glosaidiomas.com/greek-vs-latin-origins-and-diffe…

autolingual.com/greek-vs-latin/

promitheas, to memes in They're basically the same right?
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Yes, but you can for the most part understand ancient greek if you know greek. Ancient greek and greek are similar enough for that. Greek and latin are not.

promitheas, (edited ) to memes in They're basically the same right?
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Greek is nothing like Latin.

Greek is my first language and Ive (tried to) read Latin, unsuccessfully, meaning no words maake sense to me when I view them from the perspective of “this word could have this greek word as a root”

Edit: This should hopefully put a rest to this discussion

promitheas, to linux in Applications to reduce mouse usage
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I use vimium browser extension as I noticed a large chunk of my mouse usage was on the browser.

promitheas, to memes in Got ur forecast, my Lemmys
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Anyone else like miserable weather and doesn’t see an issue with the image?

promitheas, to privacy in Meta payment message
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Seems like a very interesting app. Is it open source by any chance?

promitheas, to privacy in Meta payment message
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Ahh i see. Im going to edit my post now to specify that Im looking for an alternative frontend to instagram, such as piped is for youtube. Sadly i have friends on insta that I cant stop using it for now because of

Edit: haha ive heard of it, but its not really what im looking for sadly

promitheas, to privacy in Meta payment message
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Is pixelfed an entirely different platform? Sadly i have many good friends on insta who i talk with, and they wouldnt ever switch to anything else, so because of that im stuck with meta. Otherwise i would 100% leave it

promitheas, to asklemmy in What's the significance of calling it "Israel-Hamas War" vs "Israel-Gaza War"?
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One might even say its how language works nowadays… Newspeak if you will

promitheas, to memes in Oops
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Ironically, showing just how important the first 2 panels are :D

promitheas, to memes in Apes gone
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Just in here to compliment your username :)

promitheas, to piracy in Good IRC Servers for Piracy
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With hexchat. I added the first server in the list and it worked fine

promitheas, to piracy in Good IRC Servers for Piracy
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How do you connect to one of those? I tried with the second option listen in the networks (abjects) but I get Connection failed (self-signed certificate.? (18))

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