It is actually a thing, called greeklish. It used to be more common/popular during the earlier days of computing/internet due to limited support of the Greek alphabet. It remained popular even later on and even today but i feel it is getting less popular nowadays.

Google translate supports greeklish, you can select Greek and type greeklish and it will work.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it a 1 to 1 relation of the latters?

Afaik something similar is popular in Arabic that includes digits because they look similar to the Arabic letter and using digraphs (like "dh") can be ambiguous when these letters really come next to each other

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It is only using latin letters and it is 1 to 1 for the most part. But it isnt defined somewhere, there are different variations for some letters and the Greek alphabet is slightly different than the Latin one.

For example the letter Greek letter "χ"(similar sound to English "h") can be written as "x" or "h". Χ looks like x but sounds like h, so either works.

[–] khapyman@sopuli.xyz 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's also the fact that in Finnish it's properly ihmissyöjä (personeater or some such). Kannibaali is quite used loan word but we do have our own.

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same thing in polish. We have "ludożerca" (peopleeater) but loan word "kanibal" is used too.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago

ihmissyöjä sounds suspiciously like "i miss you" 🤔

[–] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

It's the same in Russian. "Людоед" which is literally "people-eater" is the more common word.

[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

The reason we will never get into EU

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 18 points 7 months ago

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago

Yum yum

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Rumia isn't a cannibal, she eats humans

[–] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

🎵 Du bist Kannibale 🎵
🎵 du frisst alle Jahre  🎵
🎵 einen Menschen auf 🎵
🎵 du bist der Lebenslauf 🎵

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Wolverhampton: triggered.