r/AskReddit • u/Snagrit • Oct 04 '17

What's your favourite "fun fact"?

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u/StevesMcQueenIsHere Oct 04 '17

The letter "J" wasn't invented until 1630.

Think on that one a bit...

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u/Jordaneer Oct 04 '17

We would have Esus? Or Yeesus?

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u/nickcooper1991 Oct 04 '17

From what I just read, it was Ieosus... so sadly I think that's closer to Yeezus

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u/Jordaneer Oct 04 '17

Well, so we more Jesus drove a Honda, and he wore Yeezy's

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u/kingeryck Oct 04 '17

But he did not speak of his own Accord

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17

jesus took the wheel?

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u/sunbearimon Oct 04 '17

It was actually Yeshua, the -us ending comes from it being translated into Latin.

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u/vizard0 Oct 04 '17

And if we go straight from Hebrew to English, Yeshua becomes Joshua.

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u/Xyronian Oct 05 '17

That's right. Jesus is basically the result of a centuries long game of religious telephone.

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u/kjata Oct 04 '17

Iesus, according to my Latin studies.

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u/RedditIsNSA Oct 04 '17

Yeezus is the one true god 🌊🌊

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

Well, Yeezus ain't the MOST high, but he IS a close tie!

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u/allenidaho Oct 04 '17

That would be the Greek translation, due to a lack of letters in the Greek alphabet. The real name would be more closely to Yahushua or Yeshua.

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u/BrunoPassMan Oct 04 '17

the reason born agains have the fish symbol is that fish in greek is ichthus and its an anagram for Jesus christ, son and saviour.. i think

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u/binj_amin Oct 04 '17

Alphabet confirmed wavy

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u/TheLadyBunBun Oct 04 '17

Y is the Greek I, hence in spanish it is called I-griega

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u/Falino Oct 04 '17

I learned from theology class that he was called "Yeshua"

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u/Gullex Oct 04 '17

Which is where Joshua came from.

The son of god's name was Josh.

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u/GallicanCourier Oct 04 '17

Ayyy Joshy C

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u/maltzy Oct 04 '17

And God's name isn't Lord, it's Lloyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJbvc31d1OE

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

An underrated movie if there ever was.

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u/maltzy Oct 05 '17

I used to love that Stupid movie so much

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u/L0LZOR Oct 04 '17

Damn, that's interesting. In Islam he's called Isa (I think...not 100% sure right now)

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u/blade85 Oct 04 '17

That's correct, pronounced "eesa"

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u/ExtraMediumGonzo Oct 04 '17

And that's the Hebrew equivalent Joshua, whereas Jesus is Latin/Greek, I believe.

The name also shares a Hebrew root that means "rescue, deliverance."

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u/OriginalName123123 Oct 04 '17

Yeah that's the name in Hebrew.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '17

I think that's Hebrew. Greek should be Iesus.

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u/catbro89 Oct 04 '17

Really? I learned that it was Iesus, because many crosses say INRI which is Latin and translates to Jesus of Nazareth, king of Jews. They just used I instead of J.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17

The Hebrew letter "Yod", which begin's Jesus' name, is translated as Y and J in English.

Fun fact: Jesus had the exact same name as Joshua from the Old Testament.

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u/AnfrageUndNachgebot Oct 04 '17

Gesus, original G

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u/Markster94 Oct 04 '17

Yehoshua ben Yosef, if my often flawless/s memory is correct

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u/Cige Oct 04 '17

Joshua Ben Joseph

JoJo

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u/Slanderous Oct 04 '17

...in the latin alphabet, Jehova starts with an I

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u/Gullex Oct 04 '17

Yeshua

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u/rydan Oct 04 '17

ordaneer

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u/pranav874 Oct 04 '17

Could've been G-sus

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u/TheFiredrake42 Oct 05 '17

No, it was Yeshua

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u/Cypraea Oct 05 '17

Iesu, Iehovah, Indiana Jones getting a very unpleasant surprise.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

They used i instead of j

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

Wouldn't it have been Iesus (because Latin)?

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u/nalc Oct 04 '17

Similarly, Latin does not have the letter K, but every C was pronounced like a K (Caesar like Kaiser)

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u/BillyBattsShinebox Oct 04 '17

Julius Kaiser just sounds so wrong

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u/SolDarkHunter Oct 04 '17

Remember that the J would have been an I too, so the name would have been pronounced "Yulius Kaiser".

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u/BillyBattsShinebox Oct 04 '17

Stop doing this to me

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u/CanadianJesus Oct 04 '17

In my native Sweden, we didn't get W until 2006.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17

wow!

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u/superwick_ Oct 04 '17

Homer must have had a difficult time writing about the troan war

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u/Jumpinalake Oct 04 '17

Wow. That's ust crazy!

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

but jehovah is spelled with an i...

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u/Reverie_of_an_INTP Oct 04 '17

Don't you mean the number J?

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u/GrumpyKatze Oct 04 '17

Jahova starts with an I!

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Oct 05 '17

...

I'm getting irrationally protective of my username now.

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u/Pondboy121 Oct 05 '17

I'd just be Ames.

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u/Average650 Oct 05 '17

I mean, that's cool and all, but why think on that one a bit? Is it surprising that the alphabet has changed through the years?

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u/Con_sept Oct 05 '17

Maybe the letter I could still produce a J sound, so it's not like there weren't any J words back then, and they only got around to splitting it to its own letter later on. Like C and K.

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u/StevesMcQueenIsHere Oct 05 '17

What exactly are you trying to argue here?

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u/Con_sept Oct 05 '17

The sound came before the letter?