Semantic shift (WAS: RE: Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos)

> From: Jörg Rhiemeier
>
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> > "Tehhewas-cas tomtahaams-tas toohit-he : tehhewas-cas taamtar-tan
> > taahti." In Talarian. Really means "...; God will give meat." Just
> > a minor semantic shift.
>
> *MINOR* semantic shift???  From healthy, tasteful, delicious bread to
> stinking, unhealthy, barely digestable dead meat??? (Or do you mean
> living flesh, which is, however, equally remote, and the thought
> of eating it even more disgusting?)  Are you kidding?
>
> (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
There's an old nathya saying:

som eru neri umasus no lavan, som eru deri utacuth apoladhig
If Eru didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of
meat.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist either)

David

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