do, v.i.

[Joel S. Berson]

Of course it was "doh" -- Christ was telling us to prepare the staff
of life for others, as we would wish others to make doh for us if we
were starving.

Joel

At 1/18/2011 10:20 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Herb is no doubt right: "as" = "that which"
>
>If He said /du/ using pre-GVShift vowels, He really would have been
>saying what today we spell "Dow," as in "Dow-Jones." Not being a
>prophet, I will not venture an interpretation for this putative reading.
>
>Moreover, the language of the King James Bible is really early 17th
>century southern dialect, not Elizabethan. The GVS surely was over by then.
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Ron,
> >
> > Since, as is universally acknowledged, Christ spoke Elizabethan
> > English, the "as" may be a relative marker, in which case "as...you"
> > would be the direct object of "do."  Christ may not, however, have had
> > fully shifted vowels, and so perhaps he meant, "Doh."
> >
> > Herb
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
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> >> Actually, I think what Christ said was "Do unto others as you
> would have them do unto you."
> >>
> >> It is transitive if you count the deleted "something" as the
> direct object--but we find a deleted something in all of JL's examples as well.
> >>
> >
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