RE: Proof of Christianity
August 13, 2013 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2013 at 3:56 am by fr0d0.)
The names are male, but the line is female. Patriarchy it's a wonderful thing.
Cultural differences can make words have opposite meanings, yes. Gay: happy or homosexual? Wicked: really bad or really good?
Nora, the words are the best translations we have. You can't really go wrong with names, but an assumption is made by the writers that you would understand their culture without having to explain it. So unless you add to the text a swathe of explanatory side notes, the uninformed onlooker might jump to the wrong conclusions.
Cultural differences can make words have opposite meanings, yes. Gay: happy or homosexual? Wicked: really bad or really good?
Nora, the words are the best translations we have. You can't really go wrong with names, but an assumption is made by the writers that you would understand their culture without having to explain it. So unless you add to the text a swathe of explanatory side notes, the uninformed onlooker might jump to the wrong conclusions.
