[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10663.msg129992#msg129992 date=1297121919]
Wouldn't it be "moo-ee"...
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Ah yes you're right! My bad, in GB that is - 'moo-ee' - I forgot that the epsilon is silent.
Which means that in OB it would be si…
Yes, the word is moui (pronounced 'movi' in GB and 'mowi' in OB)
Mu Omicron Epsilon Iota (m-o-u-i)
I can email you a PDF dictionary if you'd like, for any other translations.
God bless
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10390.msg129925#msg129925 date=1297072078]
There are lots of reasons why masturbation is harmful and sinful, but as Christians we don't need to go through the Bible finding texts to convince us something should …
All my information on Demotic comes from the dictionary I linked to above - I simply pored through the words searching for ones which looked/sounded similar to Coptic ones.
I've been interested in the OB vs. GB debate for a long time now - here ar…
[quote author=GODlovesme link=topic=10616.msg129793#msg129793 date=1296949780]
It's also interesting that the eta is pronounced like the "ai" combination in "air" and like the a in "care" because that is exactly how it's pronounced in Classical Gree…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=10644.msg129729#msg129729 date=1296922247]
Ebouro is known to be a pharaonic tune sung at the enthroning of the king (and maybe his birthdays). Bakatronos is not a pharaonic hymn; it's Syrian I think...
Oujai
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[quote author=mabsoota link=topic=10643.msg129755#msg129755 date=1296931153]
hmm, does that mean we should call the priest's wife tensoni?!
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Well yeah! I'm not really sure why we don't - I've heard that Fr. Bishoy Kamel started the trend of…
The lesson appears to have been marked as spam ... probably because it had more than one link in it. Sorry about that - hopefully the moderator will 'unspamify' it soon. If he doesn't, I'll post it without the links and see if it works.
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10632.msg129620#msg129620 date=1296811836]
For Al Qaida to have influenced a local terrorist attack on Egyptian soil, by an Egyptian Mujahid, it means that there must have been fertile ground for the seeds of Islamic…
[quote author=Cyril97 link=topic=10615.msg129554#msg129554 date=1296765927]
My guess it O King... of peace ;)
God bless, Pray for me,
Cyril
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Most of the time, the 'weak' definite article simply emphasises the specialness of the thing, but w…
My pleasure - I'm glad they are being found useful :)
Here are the links to the others, just so that people can go from one to the other more easily:
Lesson 1: http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php/topic,10615.0.html
Lesson 2: http://tasbe…
I think they're smarter than to turn to violence, not because they're opposed to violence but because for the last thirty years Mubarak has had his boot on their necks. If they tried anything like that he would have had them all executed. The offici…
[quote author=Ioannes link=topic=10620.msg129493#msg129493 date=1296702651]
I do not think it is a sin, but it can be dangerous. If one is unsure of his or her faith, these kind of classes can really mess your head up, I have personally seen this wi…
The Jenkem
I forgot to mention the Jenkem in the first post - this is the tiny dash which appears above some letters:
`p `v `; `t etc. All it does, is put a small 'e' sound before the letter, so `p = ep, `; = eth/et and so on.
Here are some pract…
[quote author=ophadece link=topic=10616.msg129448#msg129448 date=1296680500]
I am not sure for the references of 'p' vs 'b'. I understand there were only very few words in Demotic language using the former, but they were disused due to connotations …
[quote author=TITL link=topic=10615.msg129439#msg129439 date=1296678130]
Just learn the gender along with the new vocabulary.
That was my question: how?
Is there a chart?
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The easiest way is to learn the definite article together with th…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10615.msg129389#msg129389 date=1296643210]
Why not provide both.
I know that I would not want to learn GB if I thought, as I do, that I should use OB.
God bless
Father Peter
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Fair enough, and good c…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10615.msg129386#msg129386 date=1296638305]
Which pronounciation will you be using?
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I'm going to grit my teeth and use Greco-Bohairic simply because this is what most Churches use. Old Bohairic is more…
Coptic Lesson 1: 'The'
The first thing you learn in any language is the definite article, i.e. 'the'. English has only one definite article ('the') however Coptic has five! Don't worry though, it's actually very simple. The reason for this number i…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=10602.msg129368#msg129368 date=1296627964]
I had assumed that Coptic lessons were a feature of many (if not all) Coptic churches. Is this not the case? I know I've seen them in many places I've looked.
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Wel…
I think we can get married to all Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, even those we're not in Communion with. Not sure about that though, someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
We're in Communion with all Oriental Orthodox Churches, listed here:…
Well said aiernovi! This is one of the most important functions of the Church: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations ..." Matthew 28:19
We have a beautiful gift in Christianity, and it is to be shared! Human souls are precious, beautiful …
[quote author=Remnkemi link=topic=10602.msg129339#msg129339 date=1296612742]
I'm not saying we must force people to learn a foreign language to become Coptic. I am saying if you adopt the Coptic Orthodox Church and all her customs, faith, beliefs an…
What we really need is Coptic EDUCATION - give people an easy way to LEARN IT. If the Church insists on using Coptic then every Church ought to have Coptic Classes to teach basic liturgical Coptic. It's not hard to learn at all - one of the simplest…
[quote author=GODlovesme link=topic=10589.msg129194#msg129194 date=1296539648]
Lol why don't we just revert back to our native tongue?
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Thank you! That's what I would love to do ... I'm already bugging my Abouna to let us run some Tasbeha's…
Lol that's true, but what we're using in Church makes sense to NO-ONE, not even us! It's not classical or Koine or even modern - we have invented it ourselves. We have created a corruption of Coptic in order to make the Greek in our liturgies unders…
From what I've heard the Early Church was much more tolerant of diverse views than it is now. Even someone like Origen wasn't really 'bad-mouthed' until several years after his death - at the time people simply agreed to disagree.
Pray for me
It's just that the whole point of adopting Greco-Bohairic in the first place was so that we would be able to pray liturgies with the Greek Orthodox Church - now we've killed Coptic AND Greek! It's bad enough that only two or three people understand …