More LOL cat bible

[mylodon]

Yesterday's post produced some great (and highly ejicashunal) comments.

Today I want to mention another word where the LOLcat translation is good. "Verily". There's a lot of that in the King James version, Jesus (who's always very economical with his words) emphasising a point with his "Verily I say..." The version our church uses has the clumsy phrase "I am telling you the truth".

LOLcat bible has SRSLY. Succinct and spot on.

Comments

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

SRSLY is ideal

Bishop Morgan's welsh has yb wir, yn wir its true its true I tell you

but the Greek word in John is actually in itself a word on loan - it is simply "Amen"

amen amen lego soi- and amen is not a greek but a Hebrew word meaning so be or truly because its root means firm or solid=true.
And it is the proper ending to prayer in Judiasm and Islam and Christianity..
so in London, Jerusalem and Tripoli - amen to that...

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

In my head I sometimes think of Amen as being the Aubrey/Picard-esque 'Make it so'.

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

Exactly - I thought of Picard too - now theres an indulgence I haven't been into in a while -
but could easily succumb to in an odd moment

he is a captain of whom and whose style EP would approve- wonder if he had ancestors called dela Crosse or Bergeret ?

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Or Admiral de Bruyn (sp?) that Sawyer confuses Archie with...