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vvvexation ([personal profile] vvvexation) wrote2004-02-06 08:11 pm
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A passing thought

Is it just me, or does "shibboleth" sound like a word that really ought to have been coined by H.P. Lovecraft?
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[identity profile] phantomdancer.livejournal.com 2004-02-07 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's actually a biblical phrase but I actually agree with you...

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2004-02-07 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm aware it's a biblical phrase. Hence the "ought to have."

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[identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com 2004-02-07 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Golgotha always sounded to me like a monster that fought with Godzilla.

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[identity profile] imnotbob.livejournal.com 2004-02-07 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm all these biblical words that sound like giant monsters...

The dread shibboleth

[identity profile] purchasemonkey.livejournal.com 2004-02-09 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)

   I agree with you. It has always sounded like some sort of dread, eldritch, squamous, gibbering non-Euclidean thing to me.

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[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2004-02-10 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Gibbering! Yes!

[identity profile] adamchristopher.livejournal.com 2004-02-10 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Hi V. :) I noticed you added me, I've added you back.

[identity profile] khepriamon.livejournal.com 2004-02-13 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The Dutch WW II equivalent of "shibboleth" was "Scheveningen." Both of which sound like things you'd say about 2:00 AM after the bars close. But I'm vulgar.

kae
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