• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    Apparently “nihilism” is meant to be pronounced like “nee-hilism”, but if you say it like that, nobody knows what the fuck you’re trying to say.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      If you want to change pronunciations to be closer to the original language the word derives from, you’d be changing most of English.