Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't ask you if you agree with Twain ;)
One thing is that I was pronouncing all the names wrong. Knowing some Hebrew and some Latin, I had some natural guesses about the stress and vowel sounds. I think I sat down and laughed for five minutes straight the first time I heard a Mormon say "Urim and Thummim" out loud.
*blinks* On the other side of this, it had never occurred to me before today that of course there is another way to pronounce "Urim and Thummim," since it was a term taken from the Hebrew Bible! Oh wow. I know something about (choir) Latin pronunciation but only a very very little about Hebrew pronunciation, but even that was enough that I had a pretty good guess, even before I looked it up on google, why you were laughing so hard.
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Date: 2022-06-30 05:53 am (UTC)Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't ask you if you agree with Twain ;)
One thing is that I was pronouncing all the names wrong. Knowing some Hebrew and some Latin, I had some natural guesses about the stress and vowel sounds. I think I sat down and laughed for five minutes straight the first time I heard a Mormon say "Urim and Thummim" out loud.
*blinks*
On the other side of this, it had never occurred to me before today that of course there is another way to pronounce "Urim and Thummim," since it was a term taken from the Hebrew Bible! Oh wow. I know something about (choir) Latin pronunciation but only a very very little about Hebrew pronunciation, but even that was enough that I had a pretty good guess, even before I looked it up on google, why you were laughing so hard.