Cowbob12

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[–] Cowbob12@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There are no ancient sources stating that salary was literal salt bring handed to roman soldiers, I believe the current best theory is that it was "money for salt" that was given to soldiers.

[–] Cowbob12@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you! Guess I'll just stick to ancient pronunciations on these topics.

[–] Cowbob12@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Since we're on the topic there's this historical word that I haven't heard pronounced in English, Alexander the Great had a bunch of generals that were called the Diadochi, I haven't seen this term pronounced in English, but recently I've taken into account the way English speakers pronounce words and I was wondering if the way I'm pronouncing it in English is correct or if I am just wrong.

I've been pronouncing it in an English context as: "Die-a-Dough-key" I'm no linguist so I'm not sure how to write pronunciations sorry if it looks dumb.

[–] Cowbob12@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man this Olympics have been extremely disappointing on these aspects, for me personally I began to tune out during the initial ceremony when they started to pull the whole minions scene they did. It just feels like either a cash grab or a corporate scam.