Re: fake PC supplies


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Clifford Heath wrote:
>
>R Adsett wrote:
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>> The love of money is the root of all evil!
>> The quote makes more sense when it's complete.
>
>Quite. The quote is:
>"The love of money is the root of all *kinds of* evil".
>Quite different again... and spectacularly different
>from the oft misquoted version.

Normally I silently killfile anyone who is rude enough to hijack
a discussion about electronics in an electronics newsgroup and
turn it into another boring religion/politics discussion, but
just this once I will correct the rude posters.

To be 100% accurate, you are both wrong. The actual quote is:
Rhiza gar pas ho kakos esti ejstiv ho philarguria (Or, if your
newsreader handles greek fonts, rJivza gavr pa'ß oJ kakovß oJ
filarguriva).

When a Bible passage is quoted, the default assumption is that
it's the King James Version. A distant second assumption is
the New Internation Version, with all the others tied for last
as far as being the default assumption for quotes goes.

King James Version:
For the love of money is the root of all evil

New International Version:
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil

R Adsett wasn't doing anything wrong by quoting the default
english translation. Clifford Heath should not have "corrected"
him by quoting another translation as if R Adsett had got the
quote wrong - especially without saying what translation he
himself was using. He also should have corrected the entire
quote; he got "all kinds of evil" but missed "a root."

That being said, this is a passage where the changes in english
language since the 1600s has changed the meaning for the modern
reader. When the KJV says "the root of all evil", the 15th
century reader understood it as meaning what a 21st century
reader would get from "a root of all kinds of evil". Note that
the difference between "a root" and "the root" is significant.

My ancient Greek is quite rusty and wasn't all that good in the
first place, but from my reading, "a root of all kinds of evil"
best conveys the sense of the original greek.

Can we go back to talking about electronics now? There are
hundreds of newsgroups dedicated to religion, but only this
one that is devoted to electronics design. Do you people really
have to fill every newsgroup with religion and politics?


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