They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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"

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Arent ancient and modern Greek pretty different though?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.

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