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From: Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
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To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Deus mei Erus (was: RE: Redneck Latin)

Rainer Thiel writes, i.a.,
> ...  But it is certainly a most uncommon, and from the perspective
> of even late antique Latin un-idiomatic way to re-phrase the common
> Biblical "Deus dominus meus."
,

which neatly raises the question: why do it?  Is it too far-fetched
to suppose that the defective expression "Deus mei Erus" was chosen
because its American pronunciation suggests ~Jesus may hear us~?

AMK
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