Isn't "I" also a pronoun? Making this sentence 2/3 pronouns.
At least that's how it works in my native tongue.
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Dang, the pronoun discussion has lead me to forget that pronouns include I, we and they. I'll make use of this.
"What are your pronouns?"
"I / me"
"They" is preferred for people unsure which or none. I think if you tell them you're hung and have the right the jeans, it's all good.
Pretty sure Jesus didn't speak english though. Some people in bible belt might disagree.
He spoke all the languages! Amen. Praise the lawdy lawdy. Lmao
I of course don't speak ancient languages, but I believe pronouns existed 2000 years ago too.
Yes, but some languages can drop the pronoun in favor of some other linguistic construct. For example in finnish 'I am driving" can be said "minä ajan" but "minä"(I) can be dropped completely to just "ajan" because base word for driving is "ajaa" and when I am doing it, it is inflected to "ajan"
That's also true of Estonian and Spanish, but in the case of "I am he", you'd shorten away the actor, but not the target of the action, so you'd keep one pronoun still at least.
Also the whole theoretical discussion is pointless because we probably have a guess of jesus' native language and knowledge of pronoun system in it
Aramaic, maybe also Hebrew. Both have pronouns.
That’s John assuming Jesus’s pronouns.
John Jesus Jingleheimer Schmidt
Joey Jo-jo Jesus Shabadoo
His name is my name too
Whenever we go out...
Forgot the next bit!
John 18:6 ESV
When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
I usually think grammatical gender is pretty useless in Indo European languages, with most of them having to gender a washing machine, but afro Asiatic ones have a fun additional quirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_of_gender
Essentially the numbers have to be the opposite gender of whatever it's married to.
Some languages just don't have any genders which is better
Armenian and Persian are the main Indo European languages that don't have even gendered pronouns. English got halfway there by dropping gendered nouns. The original Indo European language gender was based on if something had a spirit or not, not male or female. It changed into that binary selection early enough that even Sanskrit is gendered with male/female nouns
Korean is one such language.
This is wild! I have heard many crazy shit but this is new to me
You're just jealous because english does not have grammatical gender.
Isn't the capital H in He referring to God? Ie: "I am God". Making it a noun (person, place or thing) rather than a pronoun in this instance?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverential_capitalization
Edited to add: “He” is still a pronoun, regardless of capitalization.
Ahh interesting!
Looking this passage up the "he" is not capitalized in the several I checked.
Depends on the translation, obviously since the greek doesn't have capital letters.
Textus Receptus:
απεκριθησαν αυτω ιησουν τον ναζωραιον λεγει αυτοις ο ιησους εγω ειμι ειστηκει δε και ιουδας ο παραδιδους αυτον μετ αυτων
KJV italicises it
John 18:5 KJV
They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
NASB capitalises it
They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He *said to them, “I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.
NIV, ESV and USNT don't
“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)
They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
“Jesus o Nazareth,” the' reponed. “A be hïm,” qo he. (An Judas tha bethrayer wus stud thonner alang wi thaim.)
Only demons use pronouns:
My name is legion and my pronouns are they/them
Good guy Jesus paid his taxes concisely
Jesus, no he wasn't.
This cute boy served me a beer today at the bar. He liked me and told me was FTM. I came in my pants for Jesus.
Jesus be like
I am him.
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