Re: English word order and bumper stickers
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 16:51 |
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:43:23PM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Staving Elliot Lash:
>
> >I second this. In Hebrew:
> >
> > Baruch ata adonai
> > blessed you Lord
> >
> > "Blessed are you Lord."
> >
> >Jewish Prayers regularly begin with this Blessing from
> >the Worshipers to God.
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> And in the Catholic Mass
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> Blessed are You Lord, God of all creation,
I'll certainly conced that I was mistaken about the applicability of
"bless". However, I don't infer from either of the above specific
examples that the speakeris the one blessing God. Don't know who is -
maybe he's blessing himself - but I never heard it as us blessing him.
-Marcos
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