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Thursday, January 13, 2011

J.W. ?

Date: 12 Jan 2011

Have a random discussion with YJ on Job 1:6.

And after the commentary on my Life Application Study Bible is not enough.

I turn to Google.

And found http://www.wrestedscriptures.com/b07satan/job1v6.html

And having a hard time understanding point#1... then point#2......

then point#3.....

"If Satan were a rebel angel with access to heaven until 1914 (as J.W.'s assert), this would invalidate the Lord's prayer."

TY: "What is J.W.?"

YJ: "It may be a person's name."

Google J.W..

Then read the footnotes of the page.

"Things In Which It Is Impossible For God To Lie", (Brooklyn, New York: Watchtower Bible And Tract Society of N.Y. Inc., Int. Bible Students Ass. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1965), p. 48.

It's a JW site.

You know, that JW.

A reminder to all to be extra cautious while reading online.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lunch.

Colleague: "Does anyone knows what's 'sabun(soap)' in hokkien?"
(Silence)
Colleague: "My husband's friend already asked the whole Penang and Butterworth. Nobody knows."

Back in office, and TY does some research online.

Source 1:
Sabun is a word used in both China and Taiwan. It is a vocabulary in
Hokkien. I believe a few generations back some people said Tee Khoo
(phonetically Tee as in tea, Khoo as in dollar – most people might spell as
Teh Khor). But today, Sabun is indeed an understood word across all Hokkien
speaking regions, I would say.

Source 2 :
Douglas’ dictionary (1873) shows sabun was used even then. In the old days
there were various different types of soap: pui-tso was a kind of black
soap (皂 means black), but there were also i-tso, tso-kiap, peh-ih, etc.
Te-khơ was made from the husks of camellia seeds; uiN-bak-chi and ba-bui
were different fruits that were used as soap.

Source 3:
Sabun = savon (french) = savon (spanish) = sabun (hokkien)
It is only the english use soap!!!

Source 4:
In Taiwan, you can say "satbun" for soap. "Satbun" is not a Minnan word and
came from one of the indigenous Taiwanese languages in the mountains maybe
Ami or Tsou or Paiwan.

Source 5:
Soap

茶箍 tê-kho (day koh)