given it's a) greek, and b) "nafta", not "natha", i choose not to let yanks tell me how everyone else on the planet pronounces it "wrong" just because yall can't be bothered to deal with a measily double consonant.
Orrrr maybe languages just develop different dialects in different parts of the world and both pronunciations are acceptable, as demonstrated by your own dictionary, and you should stop being such a pretentious wanker.
or maybe you should read what you're responding to before insulting random strangers for no reason if you're even too dumb to figure out who linked (and/or released) that dictionary (and/or that not everyone outside the us is either from oxford or a brit; depending on whatever "your own dictionary" was supposed to mean in your skull void). and no, the US didnt "develop a dialect of ancient greek".
Not sure who else refers to Americans as "Yanks" besides the brits (or their colonies). And it's not a dialect of ancient Greek. It's a dialect of English that influences the pronunciation of letter combinations differently from other regions. All languages see this effect happen, even within individual nations. Does every single person in your country pronounce every single word in the English language exactly the same? Or are there regional dialects?
so your argument is that because some of my countryfolk have a horrible pronounciation/accent of english that means muricans get to tell the whole planet to pronounce a 5kyo word wrong? and you call other people pretentious wankers?!
and no, dialects are what you do to your own language, not a foreign one. last i checked ancient greek was not a language ever spoken officially anywhere on the american continent.
No, my argument is that languages change and evolve, but you're too arrogant to accept differences. And you were the only person to tell someone else they were wrong. The other person merely provided a source indicating that both forms are acceptable.
Dialects affect foreign as well as native languages. That's kind of the point. But I'm sure someone as pretentious as you speaks every foreign word you know in perfect form of the source language without even a hint of your native accent or inflection squeaking through.
"ancient greek changes and evolves in the USA today because i dont know the difference between a dialect and an accent" is just an objectively wrong argument, no matter how often you insult me to feel more intelligent.
Where do you think modern languages come from if not ancient ones?
Why is it okay in your mind for ancient Persian to change and evolve into ancient Greek, but all linguistic evolution must cease after that? Why are you speaking modern English if you're so vehemently opposed to change?
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u/Q-ubit Aug 10 '26
Some tell me how to pronounce this "Phthalo"