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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Can you translate these?
Arabic
Persian Farsi
Kurdish
Urdu
Hebrew
Latin sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut Filium suum unigenitum daret ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat sed habeat vitam aeternam
Yes, they all say the same thing. Can you figure it out without searching Google?
We have a WINNER. Very good. All the written languages say the same thing. Congratulations for your good memory of Latin. Not such a 'dead' language after all? Came in handy.
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I don't know 'bout the rest of that scribble, but based on my [somewhat limited] knowledge of Latin, I'm pretty sure it's John 3:16...
We have a WINNER. Very good. All the written languages say the same thing. Congratulations for your good memory of Latin. Not such a 'dead' language after all? Came in handy.
Latin is only a dead language insofar as nobody actually speaks it...except in evolved forms like Español, in which I'm fluent.
But it still gets plenty of use by the legal and medical professions...
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