tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 14 09:02:03 2002
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RE: god (was: Re: a word is needed?)
- From: "Sean Healy" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: god (was: Re: a word is needed?)
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:02:02 +0000
>When it comes to human words for gods, then nearly all of them have real
>names. Allah is a proper noun and the name of the Islamic god, Jehovah
>is a proper noun and the name of the Jewish/Christian god (based on the
>Hebrew I think), and so on with other religions. Therefore if you want
>to reference a particular god, use its name, don't use a generalized
>word like "god". Most religions consider their god(s) to be THE god(s).
>So if I walk up to a Hindu and say, "I worship god" they might think of
>a different god from the one I mean. :)
Well, Allah is seen as a proper noun now (after over 1300 years), but it
would be similar to calling a god in English 'Thegod'. It's the definite
article plus the noun, al lah. And if that can be a proper noun, why can't
'Greatgod', or {Qun'a'}?
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