Whomever named this was extremely cruel because those who have it can’t pronounce it.

    • TeckFire@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This word is actually not named maliciously at all. From Greek:

      “Dys,” meaning “bad,” or “abnormal,” like in Dysfunctional

      “Lexia” from “Lexis,” meaning “reading.” Think of “lexicon.”

      So now you have a perfectly normal word in Greek that came to the modern age and now is ironic because it’s not exactly native

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So is rhotacism (inability to pronounce “R”). Funnily enough, it also has the “R” sound in Ukrainian (картавість - Cyrillic “р” corresponds to the rolling “R” sound) and Russian