Re: [wolfrunners] Languages & SF/F (fwd)

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>
>I've *heard* of people who honestly thought the Bible had been written in
>English, of *course,* but it may be apocryphal.  OTOH I once went to a
>small international church in Athens (I was there for a week on a school
>trip), and the minister?  priest?  what do you call them?  (wasn't raised
>in a Christian family, plus there seem to be a gazillion denominations,
>so I apologize to Christians/religiously-knowledgable people who know the
>terminology) had people read a passage from somewhere in the New
>Testament (can't remember which, alas) in about 7 different languages.
>English was the only one that had an apostle "James."  In all the others,
>it was Jacob (or however it is in Aramaic?).  I had a fit of laughter
>over that one.
Priest will do. Though you may get withering glances from some. ;)

For the latter, this is because those poor Foreigners couldn't
speak the native language of the holy Apostle James (which of
course was 16th century English), and had to pick the nearest
Foreign name (which of course was Jacob).

Padraic.

>YHL