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Not a mistranslation, exactly. It depends on whether you rendered Nero's name from Latin or Greek. In Greek, Nero's name was written "Neron". The letter 'n' had
by AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
Not a mistranslation, exactly. It depends on whether you rendered Nero's name from Latin or Greek. In Greek, Nero's name was written "Neron". The letter 'n' had a gematria value of 50, so when transliterated into Hebrew, the extra 'n' would have made the calculated value either '616' or '666' depending on what source language the name came from.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIt might not be a mistranslation but if you wanna construct a "haha people are dumb" narrative or drop a "well akschually" it can be construed as one which is sufficient for that purpose. The above statement applies to a hell of a lot of things, not just the whole 666 was/wasn't a mistranslation factoid. Comments like the top level one are what platforms incentivize when they "keep score" of discourse like many/most do.
- AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
- xeromal 4y agoThe guy you're replying to isn't the top comment which I believe you're talking about.
- mmcgaha 4y agoI learned something from both posts so I am glad we got the simple answer and the lets-knuth-this-thing answer too.
- cristoperb 4y ago> lets-knuth-this-thing As a related aside, Don Knuth once composed a work for the pipe organ based on the book of Revelation: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html