Pythagoras’ famous theory - which has long been proven and should be made into mathematical law - will never be, because the therm ‘Pythagorean Theorem’ sounds so pleasing.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We can’t know for certain, since no audio recordings exist for obvious reasons, and we’d need a time machine to find a fluent, native speaker we can be confident is using period-correct pronunciations.

    We can make educated guesses though, by deconstructing existing descendent languages and tracing back commonalities.

    Here’s what we’ve got so far:

    https://youtu.be/5NB2Z6pZBNA

    Also worthy of note that this sort of writing would’ve been distinct from daily commoner chit-chat, which would probably be more recognizable to us. Not sure how much of that got recorded and survived through the years though.