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John Neal wrote:
> > Mr L F Braun wrote:
> >
> > > -I still
> > > get essays from college students where they refuse to spell out "God" and will
> > > write "G-d".
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>
> That sound you hear is me weeping for the future. From where does *that* kind of
> nonsense come?
Which nonsense, my feeling that it's unusual or the practice of eradicating the "o"?
If the former, it's because I'm a Unitarian, and because most of the essays I get
don't shy away from capital-G God in expository writing. (And no, I *never* under
any circumstances hold the "G-d" iteration or any expression of religious devotion
against a student--if they know their material, they know their material, and that's
that.) If it's the latter, I presume it's based on the Hebrew precedent of never
uttering or writing the "true name" of God, which is why it was so often YHWH (which
has been loosely transpronounced as "yahweh" or the Europeanized "Jehovah").
best
LFB
(FUT-> .off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Ah, I see. I thought it was because of an unbelief in God:-p It is confusing because, as you say, the Hebrew name for God as written in the OT is YHWH (however it's pronounced, no one knows for sure). So to spell the generic word for God (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Lindsay- That sound you hear is me weeping for the future. From where does *that* kind of nonsense come? -John (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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