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To: DaveMSmith
Just asked if you considered it - you do not. Says volumes.

Just shows the degree of ignorance.

Gojira (ゴジラ?) is a portmanteau of the Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ?, "gorilla"), and kujira (鯨(クジラ)?, "whale"), which is fitting because in one planning stage, Godzilla was described as "a cross between a gorilla and a whale",[3] alluding to his size, power and aquatic origin. A popular story is that "Gojira" was actually the nickname of a corpulent stagehand at Toho Studio.[4] The story has not been verified, however, and in the nearly sixty years since the film's original release, no one claiming to be the rumored employee has ever stepped forward and no photographs have ever surfaced. Kimi Honda (the widow of Ishiro Honda) always suspected that the man never existed as she mentioned in a 1998 interview that "the backstage boys at Toho loved to joke around with tall stories".[5] Godzilla's name was written in man'yōgana as Gojira (呉爾羅?), where the kanji are used for phonetic value and not for meaning. Many Japanese books on Godzilla have referenced this curious fact, including B Media Books Special: Gojira Gahô, published by Take-Shobo in three different editions (1993, 1998,[6] and 1999). The Japanese pronunciation of the name is [ɡodʑiɽa] ( listen); the Anglicized form is /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/, with the first syllable pronounced like the word "god", and the rest rhyming with "gorilla". When Godzilla was created (and Japanese-to-English transliteration was less familiar), it is likely that the kana representing the second syllable was misinterpreted[citation needed] as [dzi]; in the Hepburn romanization system, Godzilla's name would have been rendered as "Gojira", whereas in the Kunrei romanization system it would have been rendered as "Gozira".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla

Unable to address a serious point - got it. Can't understand the simplicity of transliteration - got it. Have to try to mistate a fact - got it. Have to pass one's cultic beliefs off as "Christian" - got it.

75 posted on 12/18/2012 10:45:34 AM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Godzilla; daniel1212; Cronos

My question still is unanswered: Where is there a definition of ‘personas’ that is used in your creeds that conforms to what Cronos said it does? If that cannot be provided, then those creeds that use that language are null and void.


76 posted on 12/18/2012 11:05:14 AM PST by DaveMSmith (Evil Comes from Falsity, So Share the Truth)
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