[handmaiden]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

It's a language that has 10 million native speakers (but I'm guessing our Ataturk isn't one of them), in a very remote area of one of the four corners of the world (Isaiah 11:12).

Well, that's no bat'leth the guy is holding, so I guess it isn't Klingonese.

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by handmaiden

Well, that's no bat'leth the guy is holding, so I guess it isn't Klingonese.

I think that's one of them Australian abos. He's got a didgeridoo leaning up against that rock. Judging by the poncho, he's on his way to a pride parade in Canberra or some other Godless hellhole.

[Elmer G. White]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

It's a language that has 10 million native speakers (but I'm guessing our Ataturk isn't one of them), in a very remote area of one of the four corners of the world (Isaiah 11:12).

Sister Basilissa,

While as a Creation Scientist I do appreciate your almost male-level contributions to our Field of Study, I am not sure if it is as good idea to post this image of a Welsh sheep-molesting farmer from Gallic Wales on our Godly website - and considering how this thread was initiated by a similarly-inclined Türk. Dw i'n caru defaid, as they unfortunately say in that remote part of the God-forsaken Britannia. The Truth™ about that is as follows:

Exodus 22:19
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Let us be more careful in the future? Not everything that True Christian™ tolerate is suitable for the eyes of spiritually and 23:2-Deuteronomistically lower-level humanoids.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Elmer G. White

Sister Basilissa,

While as a Creation Scientist I do appreciate your almost male-level contributions to our Field of Study, I am not sure if it is as good idea to post this image of a Welsh sheep-molesting farmer from Gallic Wales on our Godly website - and considering how this thread was initiated by a similarly-inclined Türk. Dw i'n caru defaid, as they unfortunately say in that remote part of the God-forsaken Britannia.

Of course, Brother Doctor Elmer. I do apologize. I was merely trying to get through the thick skull of Mr. Erdoğan (or whatever his name is), showing him by example why all of our visitors need to make an effort and learn Proper American to post on these Godly forums. If everyone used foreign gibberish, we could not communicate to praise Jesus together.

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

learn Proper American to post on these Godly forums. If everyone used foreign gibberish, we could not communicate to praise Jesus together.

Amen. If they can't use God's language, they can at least rum their babbling through Google Translate to make it somewhat comprehensible. That is, unless they're using a language so obscure it doesn't even appear there, such as Fula, Quechua, Elvish and whater you posted earlier.

[Vengeance Puriel]

Originally Posted by MuslimTurk

Amen to that. And before you know it, we Turkish Muslims will be ruling over you Landovarian Baptists, not the other way around.

Masjid al-Landover! Allahu Akbar!

Turkish: Bu kilise sadece Amerikan İngilizcesi ve uygun gramer konuşur. Bu, Tanrı'ya ve bu kilisenin iyi insanlarına saygıdan dolayı gereklidir.

Translation: This church speaks only American English and proper grammar. This is necessary out of respect for God and the good people of this church.

[Vengeance Puriel]

Originally Posted by MuslimTurk

Tanrı uludur

God is great!

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

50 bucks says he's actually an Orthodox Slav come here to mock his enemies, even though Slavs are as disgusting as Turks are and icon-worshippers are no more Christian than the Mooslims. In fact, Orthodox Slavs are lower than Turkish Muslims. It was the Ottoman Turks who ruled over the Slavs for centuries, not the other way around.

I would say that they are superior to Muslims, but you pointed out a fact, Mr. Lukes. It is a fact that Orthodox got massacred most of the times in history by Catholics, Muslims and Commies. No wonder Slavs are barely mentioned in any history book of Western Europe.

[MitzaLizalor]

I've highlighted a salient word in yellow for you.

Thank you for your post. I have followed your suggestion and checked the Hebrew. The highlighted word is unfamiliar to me but I did notice it contains NO LETTER D. Both the Hebrew words DO contain that letter and can hardly be equivalent to the name you've presented.

[MuslimJerk]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

I've highlighted a salient word in yellow for you.

Thank you for your post. I have followed your suggestion and checked the Hebrew. The highlighted word is unfamiliar to me but I did notice it contains NO LETTER D. Both the Hebrew words DO contain that letter and can hardly be equivalent to the name you've presented.

Mehmet, Muhammad, Mohammed, what difference does it make?.

[MuslimJerk]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

shave the beard

We have a name for people without beards: they're called kadınlar.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Originally Posted by MuslimTurk

It is my hope that one day you people will convert to the one, true religion of Islam and become the "Masjid Al-Landover"

And how do you find your approach to be working? Have you had an influx of members clambering at your inbox to hear more about this boring, fat, middle aged, sweaty, Arab hero of yours?

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Mary Etheldreda

And how do you find your approach to be working? Have you had an influx of members clambering at your inbox to hear more about this boring, fat, middle aged, sweaty, Arab hero of yours?

He probably thinks my photo indicates some sort of muslimity, rather than how I happened to be dressed when the picture was taken. I was supervising the Church Cleaning Ladies at the time.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by MuslimJerk

Mehmet, Muhammad, Mohammed, what difference does it make?.

It affects your claim about Haggai and Solomon.

But if words make no difference, why not use the Greek? It has no D in this part of the verse and even more extraneous letters! Perhaps by comparing the Greek and Hebrew we'd get a better idea of how to render this for a modern audience.

Song of Songs 5:16a He purrs honeyed words of smouldering desire

There are similarities between words in the text and words in other languages as indeed we see in French. "Chien" and "chain" have four letters in common and is it just me? Or is the a in chain just an e rotated 180 degrees? Look! If you rotate the a and the i together it's the same word! (Except the tittle's in the wrong position but so what.) Let's try some sentences.

BROWN SECTION

“Nourrissez le chien s'il vous plaît.”

Our cunning linguist understands that letters in words are of little if any significance and observes the rotated i/e, immediately understanding that the chain needs some nourishment. After all, what's a tittle between friends? Wobbling around frantically, it takes next to no time to find a chain and start feeding it. What does a chain eat? Glucose? Acid? Maybe sausage. I think this is vinegar or something and I've got a haggis..

Well, vinegar is acidic but the bottle was not vinegar. And whatever it was, it really did a number on the chain, eating through it quite quickly. Chains, unlike chiens, are often used to restrain things, tigers, owls, ships (via anchors) and such was the case here. Once dissolved, that function ceased. A couple of bears emerged from the hut and they were hungry bears. The haggis didn't last long and the acid just annoyed them. What do you think happened next?

If only the letters in words made a difference! For those of us holding that different letters DO make a difference, it's fancied that attention to detail prevent us from being eaten. If you'd like more information about Haggai, I'd be happy to provide that.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

“Nourrissez le chien s'il vous plaît.”

Our cunning linguist understands that letters in words are of little if any significance and observes the rotated i/e, immediately understanding that the chain needs some nourishment. After all, what's a tittle between friends? Wobbling around frantically, it takes next to no time to find a chain and start feeding it. What does a chain eat? Glucose? Acid? Maybe sausage. I think this is vinegar or something and I've got a haggis..

Wouldn't it be: Nourrissez le chien s'il vous plaît!

versus: Nourrissez la chaîne s'il vous plaît!

Because the difference between le chien et la chaîne is not just mixed up letters, but also opposite genders. (As well as a funny hat over the i).

As for the proper nourishment for chains (not chiens), I'd argue that oil would be preferred to vinegar, as it would provide a protective coating as opposed to stripping a coating.

That's my anyway.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

I've noticed that our new friend (I may be misusing the word) has a tendency to write using not just words, but also letters which do not exist in the Christian language! See this:

Originally Posted by MuslimJerk

Tanrı uludur

Where is the dot over the Christian i?

Regardless of this being frankly unacceptable to civilized eyes, it is clearly intended as what the "woke" would call a micro-aggression. There is nothing "micro" about this level of aggression and I would merely draw his attention to Proverbs 18:19.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

Wouldn't it be: Nourrissez le chien s'il vous plaît!

versus: Nourrissez la chaîne s'il vous plaît!

Because the difference between le chien et la chaîne is not just mixed up letters, but also opposite genders.

Gender in French differentiates between the specific and the general, for example le minuit v. la minuit — the former suggesting an instant in time, the latter describing a vague fuzzy dreamlike "middle-of-the-night" epoch, a distinction not made in American. I'm not arguing or anything, just including some of the discussion to illustrate for OP's benefit.

Originally Posted by Margaret à Beckett

before clocks were invented, the only way we had of telling the time was a sundial, which in Europe depended on whether or not the sun was out . . . once clocks started to be invented, or the town crier would go around crying 'midnight and all's well'—which meant midnight actually lasted for quite a long time until he'd got through the entire town— timepieces became more and more common. So, gradually, people became more and more aware that midnight could actually mean a particular point in time. And at that point it changed to masculine. And so we find these particular points on a continuum, all are masculine. The extent of, or when something means a range along a continuum, we find feminine.

There is a continuum of chains, pendant chain, anti-shoe-theft chain, ferry chain and so on. Chain is feminine. A delicate chain worn as a necklace, le collier, is quite specific and of limited application: masculine. If letters in words have no particular significance—since letters assembled into words essentially distinguish vocabularies—how could this or that language be relevant? (according to OP) which was a point I simply could not accommodate. Here are the chains illustrated.

As for the proper nourishment for chains (not chiens), I'd argue that oil would be preferred to vinegar, as it would provide a protective coating as opposed to stripping a coating.

I'm not claiming to know anything about stripping of course, but those ferry chains (arrowed) do come with plenty of oil and your comment demonstrates why the letter D is pertinent to cross-referencing names between extinct languages. Isn't classical Arabic also extinct? Certainly to the same extent that Latin is extinct. Sure there may be pubs in London where everything is in Latin (serving pretty good soup!) and a ululating freak may be able to get out some gibberish from his plinth but most people can't understand a word of it. Some ancient languages have been "revived" but so long after the vocabulary was forgotten and so far into the era of new words never imagined three millennia ago as to really be a different language, perhaps like Old French and Louisiana Creole. Some of it's the same and one group could sort of be understood by the other but looking for equivalents between ancient and extinct languages is utterly pointless. If not, I'm sure OP will explain for us.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

There is a continuum of chains, pendant chain, anti-shoe-theft chain, ferry chain and so on. Chain is feminine.

Maybe the most important of them all is la chaîne opératoire, which refers to step-by-step of human activity that produces artifacts (often some completely useless crap made of stone).

[ralph8MAN]

Hi all, how are you doing?

[Didymus Much]

*sigh* Hello. I guess you missed this plastered all over the place: "Attention Unsaved Trash: This the ONLY subforum you can start threads in. Here is where you introduce yourself. Tell us what church you go to and what your favorite Bible verse is and how you came to find Jesus."

Bonus points if you manage to create your thread to accomplish those tasks in.