Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a universal ...)
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 5, 2003, 17:22 |
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At 17:16 05/09/03, John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
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>I've always thought it was a cool feature of German that "Jesus Christus"
>(or either part thereof) keeps its Latin inflections:
I always thought is was cool that English had a vocative form, _Jesu_, for
_Jesus_ *only*! But sadly modern liturgy has pretty well killed this off,
now. :(
Hey, I want my own, private case. :)
Ian