• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Those medieval people were silly and backward. Why would anyone think a demon would drag them to hell just because the mispeeled a

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      2 months ago

      Oh no. Now we’ll never hear from FlyingSquid again. RIP, fiend, we’ll mis

    • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      You wouldn’t think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.

      The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).