Comment on Jesus Christ

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Somewhere between that, or possibly Yeshua.

  I dunno for sure, but if people really believe in the man, shouldn’t they refer to him by his proper Hebrew name?

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not like historical figures are always referred to by their proper names. How many English speakers talk about Cristóbal Colón or pronounce Julius Caesar as [ˈkae̯.sar].

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get you.

      But if people out there are willing to give their lives up for a person from a couple thousand years ago, you’d think they might know how to properly spell the person’s name.

      Not like he’s gonna come back to life, get real.

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      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hang on, what? I might need to rethink a few things…

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IIRC in Latin the letter “I” as in India, was used for “J” sounds. So it would be Iesus.

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• DanglingFury@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically Iesus with an I. Probably sounded out the same as the guy who did my drywall.

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  • gentooer@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Russian й (e.g. the last letter in the name Sergei) is a semivowel, the only one in the Russian alphabet.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  or Josh. 🤣

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ἰησοῦς is the original name, something sorta like Íēsûs

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• ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced Geez not Jeez

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  • dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hard G like GIF or soft G like GIF?

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  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In English yes, but not in closer languages like Aramaic, Hebrew (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)) or Greek (ἰησοῦς (ioesous)).

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    • ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a joke, my dude.

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