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Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social |
if my god's name were pronounced "peepee" i wouldn't let anyone say it either
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Jym Dyer
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This explains a lot of phallocentricity in the culture.
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D. A. Hosek
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This somehow reminds me that I lived over fifty years before realizing that “piss” was onomatopoeia.
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Josh Fruhlinger
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anyway some early greek translations of the tanakh would not translate or transliterate the name but just wrote YHWH in hebrew letters, and then these were read later by greek-speakers who didn't know hebrew, so it's not quite as silly as it might seem at first
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