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Aww, Shy took my comment nearly verbatim!
So tell me Sassy; if He created English and it's His pet-language, why do his chosen people speak Hebrew? Why were His magical books for those who are strong on understanding them written in Aramaic, Greek, and Latin? Shouldn't they have always been in English and your faith/understanding would be the equivalent of read magic or comprehend languages ?
Yahweh, himself, could personally come down and SHOW these idiots how these things develop on their own over time and they'd tell him that he was wrong. And then they'd go on to cite some irrelevant biblical passage about goat taxes to support their denial and attempt to justify that with assertions of the infallibility of his word.
Well, of course, God, being an American white guy, did write the original babble Elizabethan english so only fundies would understand it. Or their religious
If you think that the English language is some definable, unchanging entity that can be simply 'created', go Google the Beowulf manuscript and see how that goes. It's all in English, so you should have no trouble.
Sassy has got to be a Poe. Her trite pronouncements are the dumbest things ever.
Canterbury Tales is almost legible, thanks to it being post-1066 Middle English, after the introduction of French to the English Language. Old English is a mix of various Celtic tongues with no concrete spellings and old Norse, the language of the Vikings. It has letters we don't use anymore and an entirely different sentence structure. For example, this delightful piece of English language:
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum
þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
"English is the result of Norman soldiers attempting to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and is no more legitimate than any of the other results."
- H. Beam Piper
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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