(August 13, 2013 at 3:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The names are male, but the line is female. Patriarchy it's a wonderful thing.Erm... So they gave a bunch of women men's names? Or are you getting confused?
(August 13, 2013 at 3:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Cultural differences can make words have opposite meanings, yes. Gay: happy or homosexual? Wicked: really bad or really good?Happy is the opposite of homosexual now? WUT? You have to be trolling...
(August 13, 2013 at 3:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote: 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.No. No. The writers definitely didn't mean "Mary" when they wrote "Joseph."
I don't know whether to find this mental block you have amusing or disturbing, I really don't.


