Re: Can anyone translate English to Aramaic?

From: Fr. O'Malley (omalley_at_priest.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:59:23 -0400

Jacques Guy wrote in message <412AE4B4.4AF7@alphalink.com.au>...
>Fr. O'Malley wrote:
>
>
>> Syriac is used in the Chaldaean rite, the Assyrian Church, and the
>> Syrian Orthodox Church. Any cleric in those traditions would know
>> it and it would provide a viable solution for the story.
>
>Any _cleric_? Just last year I met a taxi driver

A cleric is driving a taxi? I hadn't realized the demise of the church
had progressed so far!

>who claimed
>that the "language of Jesus" was still spoken in his native
>village. "What???" said I, "you mean Aramaic?" "Oh, you know
>Aramaic?" I was so flabbergasted that I didn't even ask
>him more. I was persuaded that he was pulling my leg, too.
>Apparently not. So the original poster, if this is not
>too late, might inquire around. There may well be a Christian
>Iraqi community in his home town, some members of which do
>speak Aramaic. If there are some Aramaic speakers in a place
>like Melbourne (Australia), there are probably some too
>in larger cities elsewhere. Perhaps even in Melbourne (Florida).

I think he'd have better luck with an academic or cleric. But, then
again, a taxi driver might be more forthcoming with a translation
and less like to thrash about on issues of hermeneutics and dialect.

After all, a taxi driver is paid to get you from point A to point B.
An academic will give you a half-dozen reasons why you can't get
to point B, and another dozen why you are not really at point A.
A cleric will tell you it is mere vanity to seek point B at all. ;-)

Fr. O'Malley

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