anna mckeon: where beautiful started
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Anna McKeon discusses the evolution of the English language as influenced by William Tyndale, who translated the Bible to English and invented many of the words we use today along the way.TRANSCRIPT
Anna McKeon Where Beautiful Started
In principio creavit Deus
cælum et terram.
Trans: In the Beginning, God created heaven and the earth
The Powers that be
Let there be light
Fight the good fight
The signs of the times
Eat, drink and be merry
My brother’s keeper
Ye of little faith
or
Made up to translate Hebrew azael – goat that departs
JEHOVAH Anglicized form of the classical Hebrew Yahweh
Passover Made up rather than just using pesach
Scapegoat
Newly combined beauty + Germanic -ful (“full of”) - rather than the more common ‘belle’ or ‘fair’
Atonement At-one-ment to translate the Hebrew root behind Kippur (K-P-R)
Beautiful
thr iz no rite or wrng lingo, any mr
thn thr iz rite or wrng in n8tur s’all bout
restless + continuous chng evlutn variation
S’naked obv + rite that r lingo hz evolvd +
wll continue to evolv
wrdz r free
lovache
wrdz
Anna McKeon
Thank You!