
Amorous Badger says: "I once humorously suggested that someone had been internet-stalking a Big Brother contestant. They concluded that I was threatening them. What's the oddest misunderstanding you've been involved in?"
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I once worked with a very nice man from Brazil. He was deeply religious and told me he was taking Yiddish lessons so he could someday read the Bible in the original Hebrew.
I did not have the heart to tell him that Yiddish is actually low German.
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not as a description of the category the language is in.
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'Why can't they just talk English. If it was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for anyone.'
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revitalised by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda for spoken Modern Hebrew and in the written form by Mendele Mocher Sfarim. However, Hebrew as it stands is Modern Hebrew and in all probability the Bible as we know it was never in Hebrew although very likely it was translated in Yiddish and in that translation it would be more accurate than translations in other languages such as Brazilian Portuguese.
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started to happen and it happened in Germany due to the invention of the printing press which then led to the Age of Enlightenment, then if there were original translations of what was already a fable then Yiddish would have been one of the first languages chosen as an original translation with Latin and Greek being the source code so to speak. Therefore, for a Brazilian to say he would like to read an original translation, Yiddish, is not so far fetched. although, somewhat lost in translation.
Aramaic and Jewish Aramaic - have you seen an original text of the New Testament to know. Mel Gibson thinks so.
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Culturally it would be "the" defining translation of so called Bible fable.
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to having to learn the dead Latin language. Nothing peskier than letting people read in their own language.
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for some reason I thought the dead sea scrolls were all in Aramaic and represented the earliest known bible - I went back to check, turns out some of them were documents in Aramaic but the bible copy and most of the other items were in Hebrew
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the bible found among the dead sea scrolls is the oldest Hebrew language version of the bible ever discovered
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dating from late pre-exilic times (about 600 BC) on a pair of tiny silver scrolls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketef_Hinnom
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just spent fascinating 40-odd minutes reading about paleography. cheers for the spur to learn something
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called the Masoretic text and dates back to at least 10th century. It was a dead as a spoken language but still kept on in textual form.
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but that doesn't mean it isn't used as the basis for translations. It reads a bit like Shakespearean English to Modern Hebrew speakers, I think.
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way out of my league. I am going to watch re-runs of 3-2-1.
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and translated into Latin. There are still extant early copies of all the books of the Greek New Testament that predate the Vulgate by more than a century.
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that would be ancient Koine Greek.
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I thought you were denying an ancient Greek and Hebrew original.
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UFO and ghosts, now your talking.
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I haven't looked for UFO footage on Youtube for a while now you mention it, that's sometimes good for a laugh.
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They have special glasses where they witness space battles and everything, was the last such channel I witnessed.
Open your eyes NASA - IT IS OUT THERE - WHY THE COVER UP.
I was not denying the languages BTW. But this thread has been deemed dull so that is it. They will prob' get me in the showers later. :-(
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on starting the dullest thread in /qotw history.
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Arrgghh, you're such a FUCKING MALE. AHHHHH
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Still better than s0ckpuppet's mentalisms, mind you.
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37 replies and I can only see six of them.
Who is CrybabyCyanide and what have I done to uspet her?
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