Re: How can lie be justification for truth?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> TomS wrote:
>> "On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:57:50 +0000 (UTC), in article
>> <dr9dre$jst$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bobby D. Bryant stated..."
>>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, "Ray Martinez" <pyramidial@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scholars have traced the name of God to the Sanskrit: His name means
>>>> "Light".
>>> I don't suppose you're going to show us the etymology...
>>
>> Not many English words - or words in Hebrew, or Aramaic,
>> or Greek - trace their origins to Sanskrit. "Chukker" and
>> "punch" are a couple that come to English from a modern
>> Indic language, so we might count those. English does have
>> many roots which go back to a "common ancestor" with
>> Sanskrit, the reconstructed "Proto-Indo-European".
>>
>> The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
>> has an appendix on the Indo-European roots of all of the
>> English words in the dictionary, and the new 4th edition has
>> an appendix on the Semitic roots. The Indo-European "dyeu-"
>> has a meaning of "to shine, sky, heaven, god", and it is the
>> source of the Latin "Jove", Greek "Zeus", Old English "Tiw".
>> This seems to be about the closest to something like what
>> Ray is saying.
>>
> The Sanskrit-first folk are nutters who rely on Hindu
> "fundamentalism" to found their views of the originality of Sanskrit
> for all Indo-European languages.

FWIW, there are people who claim the same thing about Greek.

Nationalism/ethnicism probably causes more edit wars on Wikipedia than
religion does.

--
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

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