Re: Conlang Website
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> | 
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 3:33 | 
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Nik Tailor wrote:
>Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I've always wondered if there were--a format, for lack of a better word.
> > I just talk to God, not knowing any better.  :-(  ("Dear God...")
>
>Nothing wrong with that.  Jesus himself used "Abba", the equivalent of
>"daddy".  "Hey, dad ..." :-)
"Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name..."
"Thy" being the familiar pronoun. Familiarity with God is even acceptible
in English.  Which is good -- I'd much rather go to my "Dad" with problems
than some stuffy old guy. :) (No offense intended to anyone out there with
different views on the matter.)
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Marcus Smith
AIM:  Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
   -- Kenneth Hale
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