And that's *in spite* of Mohammed having the excellent idea of stating that the Koran was to always be in Arabic (which removes a lot of the ambiguities that christianity messes with due to translation errors).
Alas, even time and the normal evolution of languages ultimately introduces the same sort of trouble. But he had the right idea - I suspect he had some of the problems the other peoples of the Book were having in his day in mind.
That's pretty amusing, given that Lent isn't even biblical, though it is intended to commemorate biblical occurances. Not that that sort of thinking was confined to medieval France; certain Buddhist Japanese used to refer to deer or the like as "Mountain Whale" for similar reasons.
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Date: 2006-10-28 11:32 pm (UTC)Alas, even time and the normal evolution of languages ultimately introduces the same sort of trouble. But he had the right idea - I suspect he had some of the problems the other peoples of the Book were having in his day in mind.
That's pretty amusing, given that Lent isn't even biblical, though it is intended to commemorate biblical occurances. Not that that sort of thinking was confined to medieval France; certain Buddhist Japanese used to refer to deer or the like as "Mountain Whale" for similar reasons.