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Talk:Essay:Greatest Mysteries of World History (view source)
Revision as of 03:25, May 9, 2009
, 03:25, May 9, 2009→Language of Jesus: reply
Is that really so mysterious? It seems obvious that He'd use whatever language His listeners best understood, and in first-century Palestine that would be Aramaic most of the time, with maybe occasional Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. I for one was (and remain) unaware of any significant controversy over this. [[User:Tattersalt|Tattersalt]] 18:18, 8 May 2009 (EDT)
Is that really so mysterious? It seems obvious that He'd use whatever language His listeners best understood, and in first-century Palestine that would be Aramaic most of the time, with maybe occasional Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. I for one was (and remain) unaware of any significant controversy over this. [[User:Tattersalt|Tattersalt]] 18:18, 8 May 2009 (EDT)
: Your statement is not persuasive. One might expect Jesus to teach in the language that best articulated the concepts, for example. For hundreds of years the Bible was read in Latin, even though that was not the language that many readers "best understood."--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:25, 8 May 2009 (EDT)
== Teflon ==
== Teflon ==
Teflon was never invented by NASA, but rather by a guy named Roy Plunkett by mistake. [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/calendar/kidfeb.htm] [http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/mar/05/business/chi-0703050135mar05] Patent was filed in 1941 while NASA was founded in 1958. [http://history.nasa.gov/] [[User:Ameda|ameda]] 22:27, 8 May 2009 (EDT)
Teflon was never invented by NASA, but rather by a guy named Roy Plunkett by mistake. [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/calendar/kidfeb.htm] [http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/mar/05/business/chi-0703050135mar05] Patent was filed in 1941 while NASA was founded in 1958. [http://history.nasa.gov/] [[User:Ameda|ameda]] 22:27, 8 May 2009 (EDT)