[B-Greek] tongues - languages
Ben Crick
ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Wed May 25 17:00:54 EDT 2005
On Wed 25 May 2005 (06:14:56), papaweiss1 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 3. Being an unusual or rarely-used (these days) word for "languages,"
> it perhaps subtly cues the reader/listener to the fact that the text
> is speaking about something other than normal human speech.
"Language" is an English word derived from the Latin /lingua/, the tongue.
"Tongues" and "Languages" (articulated with the help of the "tongue") are
therefore synonymous.
ERRWSQE
Ben
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