Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:45:59 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD Message-ID: <p06002033bcac8db7ca76@[10.0.1.5]> In-Reply-To: <20040421124817.5811bddb.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABCEAICKAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <6.0.1.1.1.20040421191223.03ed1a88@imap.sfu.ca> <p06002031bcac75b028c1@[10.0.1.5]> <20040421124817.5811bddb.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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At 12:48 PM -0700 2004/04/21, Chris Pressey wrote:
> But unless someone can show that it is actually *not possible* to
> distinguish between "unmarried" and "chaste" in Aramaic, I think the
> challenge still stands. :)
The word virgin is distinct from chaste in English, and I'm sure
that Aramaic can distinguish between them as well. The issue is not
whether they could distinguish between them two thousand years ago,
but what has happened since.
Of course, you could always ask Mel Gibson. ;-)
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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