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23 Feb 2009, 8:32 pm

slowmutant wrote:
God / Good
Devil / Evil

Non-coindence?

God/Good and Devil/Evil, works in english, in several other languages these words have no relation at all in that sense. So the question about wether that is a coincidence or not, especially when making a baised position, it doesn't really offer anything because it ignores that basic aspect, unless some people would actually believe english was the first language spoken by man, therefore God's language.


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Does the entire universe speak Arabic or Greek?

No, the entire universe doesn't speak Hebrew or Latin either.

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Sand wrote:
If you like to play with words, the reverse of evil is live and the reverse of God is dog. Do you find that significant?


Kinda.

But I didn't start this thread.

God / Dog
Evil / Live


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24 Feb 2009, 12:41 am

twoshots wrote:
Old English preserved a very similar person conjugation system as well. The singular subject conjugations tended to exhibit a -e, -est,-eþ conjugation, the latter of which preserving the interdental fricatives now lost in most other Germanic languages, although I think the plural conjugations were generally the same (-aþ), although knowing English those rule's weren't hard and fast. Although there are no immediately obvious matches with Latin, the third person singular conjugation -eþ is an immediate transformation of the PIE -et using Grimm's Law, and as such is essentially identical to the Latin version.


With the speciality that even the form of German used in daily live moves slowly to simpler forms, Standard German introduced further forms directly adopted from Latin, like a Conjunctive conjugation ("Sähest du ..." - "If you could see ..."). The gap between the language spoken on the street and Standard German is widening.