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Comment on How Chrono Trigger Taught Me The Word ‘Epoch’

C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I couldn’t read past the part of the article where he insists (at great length) that epoch is usually pronounced identically to epic.

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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Came in with that first paragraph on my clipboard to highlight how silly this is

For one, it’s pronounced identically to the word epic in most cases. I’m going to guess that nine times out of ten, if you used epoch in a sentence, most people would assume you’re saying epic anyway, regardless if that makes sense in context.

No. It’s not. It’s pronounced ee-pokh or ep-okh. Anyone pronouncing it like “epic” has got the vowel sound entirely wrong.

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- capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s apparently the American pronunciation. Though, half our population can’t read anyway, so I’ll just keep saying it the right way. Or maybe we just go back to the original Greek, Epochē.
  
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  - Moltz@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So apparent nobody actually pronounces it like that. All things written on the internet are fact, clearly.
    
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