[Adam invented science when he named the animals, according to this fundie.]
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It must have been science... Adam built a time machine, went to the future, learned English, and then rewrote the etymology.
It used to be from the old English wif-mann -- 'wif' meaning female, and 'mann' meaning a human being of either sex. But Adam and his science put an end to that!
Amos: I was thinking the same thing, but then I remembered that Adam surely spoke the language of Heaven, which, as we all know, is Jacobean English. Praise!
sadly, history never recorded the REAL name Adam gave the platypus. That being, of course, "What the hell is this thing? How am I supposed to put all these ridiculous characteristics into one name? And you are telling me THIS survives the flood and unicorns don't? Unicorn was an AWESOME name. Makes perfect sense. So, yeah, fuck this animal."
Adam did a much simpler categorization
Yeah - cow, pig, dog, etc., just like my kindergarten coloring book.
Adam named her "ishshah" (man was "ish"). In English, "woman" comes from "wyf-man", where "wyf" means female and "man" means person.
Adam eh? Spoke english pretty well did he? Good enough to catagorize something that (by your logic) did not exist until that point - the womb. Considering the term "Woman" has German, Flemish and Old English origins, I'd say you lose buddy.
And the Lord said unto Adam: "English Mother-Fucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?"
Had to fit in a quote from that movie somewhere, great stuff.
Well, that would really only work if Adam spoke modern English, since the words for "man," "woman," and "womb" would have been radically different in whatever language he may have spoken. Which absolutely wasn't modern English.
Wow.
Bad etymology award nthd. Man refers to people, fuckwit, in that sense. And Adam spoke present-day English?
And what does that have to do with your argument! I can think of better for your conclusion of Adam beginning a classification of animals than that, without even cracking a Bible. Like, oh, that bit about naming all the creatures in the sea, then all the creatures on the land, then in the sky.
STFU!
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really hate people who play stupid etymological games like that. A lot. First because it shows their complete ignorance about other languages, second because they're obviously trying to shoehorn something to fit their personal prejudices.
Okay Mr. vaderfan, why did Adam name it a WALRUS? It looks neither like a Wall nor my friend Russ. Uhh, scratch that, on second thought it does look kind of like Russ.
Steve chose all the goofy names, Aardvark, wombat, marmot, orangutang
Ooh, ouch. Blistering argument there, sharpshooter.
Too bad it makes absolutely no sense, dumb ass.
Ooooh! Imagine that! Adam was so intelligent that he knew such words as man, woman, and womb would be invented thousands of years later in a language he never heard or spoke - and all just to keep fundies from doubting the inerrant word of the King James Bible. Imagine , indeed.
Ironically, the closest Hebrew translation for man is 'adam.
'adam + Beten = 'ishshah
Very scientific.
(Anyone else got a picture of a retard slapping his own chest and the only word he knows is Adam?)
In Spanish, woman is Mujer, in Irish Ban, in Greek, giné, in latin, mulier or femina, in German, Frau, in French, femme, and in Saxon, old English, you know, wifan(from which wife comes from). By the way, how's in Hebrew?, because he didn't speak English, in case you're wondering. And, now that you have enlightened us, would you care to explain the hidden meaning of dog, snake, spider or...............
I just LOVE etymology, esp. that based only on English:
IMBECILE - As in "I am", contracted ("B" silent as in "Comb") + "Silly" (2nd syllablic loss, cf. Anglo-Saxon "ende");
MORON - As in "I am", first phoneme loss, cf. "napron" v. "apron" + "Or" (Conjunction) + "On," as in "Running on and on and on and on and on and on..."
IDIOT - As in "It did it," which is subpar-English, e.g., best exemplified by an Appalachian Idiot, upon being confronted by a mess on the kitchen floor, immediately points at the cat and says: "Idiot!"
SHITHEAD - As in "Shit" + "Head"
“So in a sense, he did begin a classification.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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