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on 6/12/02 4:43 PM, kevinbsmith at yahoogroups@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> I've been thinking about the word for 'god' and I'm still >> not satisfied with 'kami'. Somehow I want it to be a >> single syllable. Mandarin has 'shen', prnounced 'cyn'. >> Does anybody have a problem with that word? > > I don't have a problem with the word. I do have a bit of > concern about the definition. Basically, "god" (and "God") > mean a lot of different things to different people. Is > there a single definition that makes sense in a neutral > language? > > Just to throw out an alternative viewpoint, perhaps there > shouldn't be a word for god. Perhaps "God" would be > metaphysical+masculine+creator whereas a Roman "god" might > be supernatural+man and the new age concept of "god" might > be creator-energy-everywhere. > > Just a thought. You could, of course, be traditional and just > say 'cyn' = "god" and let people define it for themselves. > I think the latter, tho there's no reason why other words with more specific meanings can't be coined, as indeed they have in English. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/