(February 17, 2018 at 5:44 pm)Banned Wrote:(February 17, 2018 at 4:30 am)Cyberman Wrote: Etymology fail:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/good
https://www.etymonline.com/word/god
Cyberman - I took it for granted that the word good and god had the same root word, because I come from European/Celtic stock, and that's the way my ancestors used the word.
Modern versions of the etymology seem to have changed that idea. But I can accept that while on the forum.
That's fine, as long as you can accept the correction. It took me literally ten seconds to fact check, but I did have the head start of knowing it was untrue to begin with. By the way, it's not "modern versions of the etymology that changed the idea"; it's just etymology. Note that the paragraph I quoted is dated 1902.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'