I’m trying to imagine how all of γιαου- work together. Is it /jau/?
I’d like to be able to pronounce my current favorite snack, γιαού?τι με μέλι.
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What? No figs and pistachios? 
ΜΕ ΑΠΟΓΟΙΤΕΥΣΕΣ.
Certainly it means “with.” I think it’s from μετά but I’d have to dig to verify.
Ahh. Thank you. I was inclined to take -αου- as a diphthong.
Nope. Only walnuts if I’m feeling extravagant. But now I’ll have to try pistachios.
I’ve been reading After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC. I was charmed to discover just how long pistachios have been a part of the human diet in the levant, and hazlenuts in northern Europe.
Hi annis I’m pleased to have a mention but I still don’t understand your signature, it’s probably because I’m simple…
“Για” sounds almost exactly like the german “ja” really (not that I know how to pronounce German that well) and then there’s “ου” which is similar to “ou” in “coup”
and με does come from μετά although μετά still exists with different meanings (mainly “after” ) (and in some formal documents with the meaning of “with” too)
It’s a little slice of American pop-culture. In the 90s there was a brief merchandising bonanza, apparently fuled by Christian youth groups, of stuff emblazoned with “WWJD” — What Would Jesus Do? (To me this gives off a faint whiff of Arrianism, though of course I’m no expert in such theological niceties).
In any case the phrase lends itself to easy appropriation, from the religious — WWMpbuhD — to the banal — “What Would Martha Stewart Do?” (pre-incarceration) — to mine, which hasn’t taken off, “What Would the Bene Gesserit Do?” I think I’ll have better luck with WWED.
I have some misgivings about the WWJD idea because it places Jesus as a moral example rather than a divine Saviour. Arius placed Jesus as inferior to God the Father but he still viewed him as divine. I don’t know if Arius would have approved of the WWJD movement or not. It certainly has a whiff of something but I can’t quite say of what.
(I know that because your view of religion in general these controversies may not mean that much to you but you never know, you may be able to use this in a game of Trivial pursuit.)
(Oops. One ‘r’ in Arian.)
I’m thinking in particular of this notion:
From this it followed that taking Jesus as a model might lead to humans being similarly adopted. (Interestingly, many places where Arianism was strongest quickly turned to Islam during the Arab conquests, where god is unitary and Muhammad a human model to emulate.) In any case WWJD seems to point in this direction a bit.
(I know that because your view of religion in general these controversies may not mean that much to you but you never know, you may be able to use this in a game of Trivial pursuit.)
Heresy is not a pressing personal issue, true, but the histories of and around the major heresies are just fascinating.
Edit: syntactic train-wreck cleaned up.
Ah, yes. Textkit: Where yogurt leads naturally to heresiology.
Well let’s think about it this way: Γιαου?τώνω is a very modern Greek verb which of course means to cover someone with yogurt applying it from a certain distance. Wouldn’t that be a better way to deal with heresies?
By the way I must say that the divine = inexplicable and ergo impossible to know how he/she/it would react in a certain circumstance is an equation I don’t really understand but this is better suited for the bottom section of the forums.
I don’t really care for the whole WWJD thing. I’ve seen some others, viz. FROG=Forever Relying on Grace, and PUSH=Pray Until Something Happens (which I think is even more theologically troublesome). As a whole, I really hate the commercial side of “Christianity”. I put Christianity in quotes because most of the commercial side is funded by secular institutions.
It’s kinda like study bibles. There has been an absolute explosion in study bibles lately. Some of which are very good, but most of which are simply garbage to try and get Christians to buy more bibles. I am expecting the “Left-Handed Hispanic Mime Study Bible” to be released soon. It’s almost that ridiculous. As for the rest of it…I call it “Jesus Junk”, it’s simply something people have figured out they can make a buck off a religious num-num who has more money than sense.
Ok…enough of my soapbox for now 
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I had not heard of that one before but it reminds me of the books and paraphernilia about the “prayer of Jabez.”
These things strike me as “You never know, it worked for him so maybe we can get some cash value out of religion as well.”
It is disturbing that so many people were and are getting sucked in by popular “christian” writers like Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller who proclaim that these sorts of cash value heresies are THE message of the Bible.
And yes William, we Textkittens are a strange breed. This started out with yogurt and now is about heresies. Give it some time and we will be talking about languages and word history.
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You’re right, I didn’t know.
I wonder where a term like that would come from.
It does not sound overly derogatory to me, But then, I have a weak spot for yogurt, I just never have had it with honey (Strawberries is a different story.)
Peter I haven’t heard of it really to tell you the truth. I know about Giaour which I think means infidel but I haven’t heard about this one. If it exists maybe it comes from the “similarity” with Greece’s official name in (to generilise shamelessly) the countries East of it? Yunanistan?