[LMB] OT: Authors who must not be named!

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, quietann wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007 1:52 PM, Ivy Yap <ivyvyap at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Typing G-d or G*d is also a Jewish thing, because the name of
> the deity must never be spoken or written fully.  There are
> various euphemisms like "Hashem" but it's easier to just use
> the more efficient G-d.

This always kind of amuses me (even though I'll do it when
writing as me, but won't in character dialogue when writing
fiction about people who don't follow this rule) because G-d's
name isn't really 'G-d', it's a Hebrew word.  G-d is just a
specific singular of the English word 'god' which also refers to
beings like Zeus and Thor.

~malfoy :)

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