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~ Ethne
~ The_One
~ Agares_AngelOfDespsir
can you explain it ??Lemonized_Jelly on irc said:<Agares_AngelOfDespair>: The One can't come back to #erebus when the taint of Agares is here because he would destroy it.
In general, I would tend to agree with rlaf about the differences being linguistic. With species as different as humans and lizardmen it would make sense for them to be unable to pronounce the same names. I'm not sure I agree with his example though.
Its not Yavweh, its YHWH, the Tetragrammaton (Yahweh is our best guess though). There is no way to know if there is a long A sound. No one knows the vowels. Hebrew did not have vowel points at the time the scriptures were written, and since the Jews were so careful not to take the name in vain, the proper pronunciation has long been lost. (This may be in part because when the commandment not to blaspheme the name was translated to Aramaic the word used also meant pronounce.) (Samaritans preserved the pronuciation as Yahwe or Yahwa.) The misreading "Jehovah" comes from putting the vowel points of of Adonai (the title, "lord") in between the consonants of the tetragrammaton to remind readers to use the title instead of the name. (Sometimes Elohim was used instead of Adonai.)
There are some Christians who emulate Jewish practice and avoid saying God directly. Circumlocutions in references to the divine were quire common among Christians a couple centuries ago.
Hey, man. I was jus goin off of wat I've heard Jews say, how they pronounce it. I know the Jewish alphabet caused some problems for the other languages (when translated) cuz of the fact that it is, as you said, Tetragrammaton.
And, yes, some Christians do emulate the practice of not sayin God directly. But in general, many don't. Even goin so far as to break one of the 10 Commandments, "Don't take the name of Lord in vain", by sayin "Oh my God". Anyway, nough religious/linguistic debate. We're stealin the thread.
474. You've often noticed that Elohim, the Jewish word meanin "Fullness of the Gentiles", doesn't describe the Elohim civ well cuz they are no Jews in dark fantasy mods. It's also an Easter Egg; see the thread on "Easter Eggs".
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