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Why do people still pronounce it Eck-cetera?

submitted by SumerBreeze to whatever 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:23:29 ago (+3/-1)     (whatever)

It’s clearly ET-cetera!


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[ - ] Fascinus 5 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:31:12 ago (+5/-0)

Lemme axe you dis!

[ - ] Steelerfish 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:36:32 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:45:28 ago (+1/-0)

HA X 5

[ - ] DitchPig 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:35:58 ago (+1/-0)

Because Americans all speak like niggers these days.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:37:32 ago (+1/-0)

Because they're retarded?

[ - ] Whatthefuck 2 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:48:08 ago (+2/-0)

If you want to go to the next level of pedantic along with me, the actual correct pronunciation is ET-ketera. C is always hard in Classical Latin. Don't let these lispy faggots suggest otherwise.

A good example of this would be the word Kike. It shares the same Latin root with circle and cyclone.

The whole soft C thing is Late and Vulgar Latin, post 2nd century.

Back to your original point though, I agree 100% that anyone who says "eck-setera" should be castrated, to prevent them further damaging the genetic pool.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 19:31:58 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Whatthefuck 0 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 23:21:28 ago (+0/-0)

No, because like you said, it's FROM Latin, but it isn't Latin. It's English, and the English don't have any actual rules for how C is pronounced, you just have to know.

If it was the Latin root word "celeber" then yes, it would 100% be a hard C. There is no soft C in Latin, but there is in English.

Etcetera isn't derived from Latin, it is Latin.

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:51:10 ago (+1/-0)

XSPECIALLY the intelligent ones who fuck up the use of "then & than"...it's no wander everyone's wondering in the wrong direction

[ - ] Sleazy 4 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:52:09 ago (+4/-0)

stop talking to niggers

[ - ] SumerBreeze [op] 0 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 15:55:53 ago (+0/-0)

I watched a white political commentator say it!

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 16:01:31 ago (+1/-0)

Half of whites fall below the 100 IQ mark, and whites outnumber niggers in the upper level of the retardation tier.

[ - ] HelenHighwater 7 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 14:52:22 ago (+7/-0)

Well, oviously (for all intensive purposes), it is a mute point, irregardless of how you feel. You can try to nip that in the butt. Case and point: I should of been at this sites beckon call for grammer, rather than some escape goat. (I could care less, I am not on tender hooks over it), and I don't mind being taken for granite.)

[ - ] Monica 0 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 15:43:08 ago (+0/-0)

Rock on.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 19:14:22 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 10 monthsJul 15, 2024 00:14:56 ago (+0/-0)

I hate you. Excellent list of annoyances though. And I hate every single one of them.

[ - ] FreeinTX 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 15:36:56 ago (+1/-0)

-cetra

[ - ] Monica 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 15:52:50 ago (+1/-0)

We all know it's kek-cetra.

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 15:59:01 ago (+2/-0)

Only a small percentage of people are competent in their primary communication protocols.

[ - ] Kozel 1 point 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 17:37:08 ago (+1/-0)

axe dem y dey do dat

[ - ] ISlooshyYou 2 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 18:05:59 ago (+2/-0)

Don't aks me.

[ - ] Dingo 2 points 10 monthsJul 14, 2024 18:53:24 ago (+2/-0)

Eck-cetera is the ebonics pronounciation.