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To: Treader
No, really. I see that and wonder how the French do it. "D--u?" "D-eu?" "D---?" Do you blip all the vowels or just one?

I know the ancient Hebrews wrote YHWH, removing all the vowels, but they didn't start writing vowels at all until about 200 BC IIRC. Thus, they would have written the word for "pus pimple" with no vowels because that was their system.

Do the Russians of a certain cult persuasion write "B-g?" Do they even have that breed there?

Supposedly, His name is unutterable or something. Sounds pretty unworkable. I mean, how do you pronounce "G-d?" If you pronounce it the same as "God," what's the problem with typing it on the computer the same as "God?"

What good IS an unutterable name? I've seen them. You've seen them. Drill sergeants stumble over them. College professors give up and start spelling. It inevitably turns out that "Majchrzak" has some simple sound like "My-shack," but what is gained by all that stumbling and fussing?

177 posted on 08/17/2006 8:18:05 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

lol...unutterable? It is interesting that you seem to recognize the difference and not want the similarity. Yet, the deference is my deference. I can do that, right? Even without your permission? Unlike the DI's, G-d knows exactly who we are, and the stumblin' bumblin' is just the honesty of life. We know that reality as children- then forget it by the convenience of youth- and hopefully seek it again, as men. All the best to ya...


191 posted on 08/17/2006 8:41:07 PM PDT by Treader (Human convenience is always on the edge of a breakthrough, or a sellout)
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