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RE: bible

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: bible
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:04:45 -0800 (PST)
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"Bible" doesn't mean "collection of books". The word
comes from the Greek "byblos" (=papyrus or paper),
which came from the name of the city Byblos, from
which
papyrus was first introduced to Greece.

The word "paqghom" to me would suggest a library, not
a single bound volume.

-- ter'eS

--- DloraH <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > by the way, i know some people are translating
> the bible 
> > into klingon. What is the word they chose for
> bible? Maybe 
> > just paq'a'?
> > >
> > 
> > As I understand it "bible" means "a collection of
> books". ("The Holy
> > Bible", would be a collection of holy books)
> > So if <mu'ghom> is "dictionary", could <paqghom>
> be "bible"?
> > And then just tack on <quv> to show the
> significance of the book?
> 
> Or you could be more specific/direct and say <Qun
> paqghom>.
> 
> (Disclaimer:  Yes, we all know that we shouldn't
> make up our own compound nouns.)
> 
> 
> DloraH
> 
> 
> 
> 

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