A question for the Jews

[Neil]

It would have had to have been, since Hebrew was written in the Aramaic alphabet during the period that the earlier books were written.

But the Hebrew Alphabet pretty much is the Aramaic alphabet is it not?

They're closely related, but the sounds change over the centuries.

[CountDeMoney]

Jesus, Slargos, your schtick is so so tired.

No kidding.  And he's not even German.  That's the sad part.  He's like the Neil of Naziism.

[katmai]

Slargos, a word of advice from Tropic Thunder: Never go full retard. 

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bce7b31cef/tropic-thunder-film-clip-nobody-goes-full-retard-from-ilike2party

Advice he needed back in 2002 not now legbiter.

[MadImmortalMan]

The Infidel was a good movie. 

[Slargos]

Slargos, a word of advice from Tropic Thunder: Never go full retard. 

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bce7b31cef/tropic-thunder-film-clip-nobody-goes-full-retard-from-ilike2party

Come on. I was curious, and it's a perfectly valid question. I don't hang around with a lot of jews.

[Solmyr]

Speaking of which, another question for the Jews:

We know you can't say "Jehovah" (or some other spelling equivalent) but can you quote a post with "Jehovah" in it? What about posting in a thread with "Jehovah" in the title?

What's wrong with Jehovah? 

I only said "this meal was good enough for Jehovah!"

I'm warning you, if you say Jehovah one more time...

[grumbler]

Jesus, Slargos, your schtick is so so tired.

No kidding.  And he's not even German.  That's the sad part.  He's like the Neil of Naziism.

[Slargos]

Jesus, Slargos, your schtick is so so tired.

No kidding.  And he's not even German.  That's the sad part.  He's like the Neil of Naziism.

It's pretty funny. Seedy I can see, because he's just being his flippant self, but you I don't get.

But I guess you're more of a racist than you care to admit.

[Eddie Teach]

Some of Grumbler's best friends are German.

[Caliga]

In my last job my secretary got mad at me because I used to say "Goddamn it" alot and she was like "Stop taking the Lord's name in vain!"  I tried to explain to her that the name of God is not 'God' no more than my name is 'Boss', and that his real name was thought to be something similar to 'Yahweh' or 'Ialdabaoth' but because people were afraid to utter it nobody knows for sure what it is now.  For some reason that just made her more upset.

[Viking]

In my last job my secretary got mad at me because I used to say "Goddamn it" alot and she was like "Stop taking the Lord's name in vain!"  I tried to explain to her that the name of God is not 'God' no more than my name is 'Boss', and that his real name was thought to be something similar to 'Yahweh' or 'Ialdabaoth' but because people were afraid to utter it nobody knows for sure what it is now.  For some reason that just made her more upset.

Start using arabic (Inshallah, hamdilullah etc.), see if that makes her less upset. I routinely swear in icelandic and japanese on the simple grounds that nobody understands me, but everybody knows what my meaning is. (note, much of my japanese swearing is stuff I made up in japanese since the conservative yokels I lived with when I was there refused to teach me any naughty words, I later learned the proper swearing, but by that time I was used to calling assholes "orifice in the rear" and dicks "male reproductive organ".

[viper37]

It is a mitzvah to not mention the names of any false gods.

So you couldn't say "Jupiter's cock" every 3 words if things were going bad?  How sad

[Valmy]

In my last job my secretary got mad at me because I used to say "Goddamn it" alot and she was like "Stop taking the Lord's name in vain!"  I tried to explain to her that the name of God is not 'God' no more than my name is 'Boss', and that his real name was thought to be something similar to 'Yahweh' or 'Ialdabaoth' but because people were afraid to utter it nobody knows for sure what it is now.  For some reason that just made her more upset.

You should have told her you were really saying g_ddamn it.

[Caliga]

Start using arabic (Inshallah, hamdilullah etc.), see if that makes her less upset.

It's irrelevant now since I no longer work there (and neither does she, I just learned last week).  This was like 3 years ago.

[Malthus]

In answer of your question - I often swear "Jesus goddam K-rrist!" and the like when (say) I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Just cultural osmosis - if I was living in your part of the world a thousand years ago, no doubt I'd yell "Odin's Spear!" or whatever.