Message from @anthr0pos

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2019-09-26 19:09:39 UTC  

Anyway technically beta is the letter that inspired the b in the latin alphabet and it has the same pronounciation to it, I'm fairly sure that modern Greek β can be both pronounced as a b and a v. Since originally the greek letter for v was digamma and it was only slowly assimilated into β due to charateristics of the spoken language mutating through time. @ΕΘΝΙΚH ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΗ

2019-09-26 19:10:04 UTC  

nope, I can confirm it isn't used as a b

2019-09-26 19:10:09 UTC  

since I live here

2019-09-26 19:10:18 UTC  

all the shop signs and everywhere uses μπ

2019-09-26 19:10:25 UTC  

for direct b's

2019-09-26 19:10:37 UTC  

β can sound like a bv hybrid

2019-09-26 19:10:40 UTC  

but that's about it

2019-09-26 19:10:45 UTC  

mostly still a v tho

2019-09-26 19:10:57 UTC  

for example μπαταρια

2019-09-26 19:11:01 UTC  

Ah. It's kinda like spanish

2019-09-26 19:11:04 UTC  

like I see the sign in shops

2019-09-26 19:11:05 UTC  

Makes sense

2019-09-26 19:11:16 UTC  

never a β for a b

2019-09-26 19:11:34 UTC  

mp together kind of sounds like a b tho

2019-09-26 19:11:38 UTC  

closest thing to it

2019-09-26 19:11:40 UTC  

so that's why

2019-09-26 19:11:45 UTC  

This is why you are gay nerds

2019-09-26 19:12:08 UTC  

Whomstve even cares about letters man

2019-09-26 19:12:26 UTC  

idk just feel the need to explain

2019-09-26 19:13:03 UTC  

It must have changed further, in ancient greek b is β but it can assume the pronounciation of v if in the archaic origin of the word there was originally a digamma as I said, which changed to the closest letter phonetically

2019-09-26 19:13:06 UTC  

Which is beta

2019-09-26 19:13:17 UTC  

here's an example

2019-09-26 19:13:24 UTC  

nihil's favourite shop

2019-09-26 19:13:30 UTC  

Digamma is the archaic letter for v

2019-09-26 19:13:35 UTC  

<:oh:555739741337812992>

2019-09-26 19:13:49 UTC  

Cool

2019-09-26 19:13:51 UTC  

I see

2019-09-26 19:14:05 UTC  

ΜΠΑΤΑΡΙΑΣ = BATARIAS

2019-09-26 19:14:10 UTC  

Yes

2019-09-26 19:15:02 UTC  

That's a cool nerdy phonetical origin to tell though @ΕΘΝΙΚH ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΗ

2019-09-26 19:15:11 UTC  

Comes straight from indo european

2019-09-26 19:15:48 UTC  

or like bananas in greek:

2019-09-26 19:15:55 UTC  

μπανανες

2019-09-26 19:16:07 UTC  

Based

2019-09-26 19:16:15 UTC  

Wtf

2019-09-26 19:16:42 UTC  

just another example

2019-09-26 19:16:49 UTC  

Anthropos you are the owner right? Is there another one?

2019-09-26 19:16:53 UTC  

like when I go to the supermarket I see the writings all the time

2019-09-26 19:16:59 UTC  

I assume singular is μπαναν, μπανανος @ΕΘΝΙΚH ΑΝΤΙΣΤΑΣΗ