Faith, Hope and Love &ETC.

In a message dated 11.08.2001 08:13:37 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>The original Greek has: pístis, elpís, agápE (the last letter being eta)
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>The corresponding phrase in the Vulgate has: fides, spes, caritas
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>In my Welsh New Testament it is: fydd, gobaith, cariad
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>The Esperanto Bible has: fido, espero, amo
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>In Mote (Speedwords), 'twould be: fid, atu, am
In Kaos Babul Ingaliz: fido, gungho, mush
    [alternatively: fido, gungho, gui]

    the _fido_ here is not directly based on Esperanto or Latinate, but
rather on the idea of "faithful like Fido";
    _gungho_ is originally Chinese, "appropriated" by American military
forces circa WW2 (to be specific, the Marines in 1942), spred to American
slang, and now highly mutated into connoting "to have fierce strength and
cunning to face the future no matter what odds are stacked against oneself
and/or one's group";
    _mush_ is from American slang and the acronym for "More Unbearable Sh*t
and Heart/Headache"
    _gui_ is from "gooey", as in "gooey as a fruitbat"

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    ORTHOGRAPHIC CORRECTION/LEXICON UP-DATE re: Kaos Babul Ingaliz:

In a message dated 10.08.2001 05:38:07 AM, Sylvia Sotomayor
(kelen@IX.NETCOM.COM) writes:

    >Properly seasoned, you'd make a handsome meal.

In Kaos Babul Ingaliz (NOTE: lexicon & orthography is still tentative, in
mutation):

    Yu sapoz bon fashin bin karri lah
                            yu hasard bi nanosek eno mega movi-stah chow-chow
stap.

    You/suppose/good/fashion/[PTPart.]/curry/[*]/

you/chance/be/nanosecond/one/big/movie-star/meal/stop.

    [PTPart.] ===> Past Tense Particle
    [*] ===> grammatical particle