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[Vice]

"shit":
Old English scite for "dung", scitan "to defacate", of Germanic origin. Related to Old English sceadan "to separate" (Modern High German "scheiden" with "sc" Old English and Modern German "sch" to be pronounced like "sh" in Modern English). Other Germanic cognates are skita in Old Norse for "defecate", and Middle Dutch schitte for "excrement".

"shithead":
a newly coined term in contemporary English, no usage of this term attested in earlier forms of English (Old and Middle English or earlier Germanic dialects).
NOUN Taboo slang " a fool, idiot". Used a s a term of abuse.

Data taken from:
Collins English Dictionary, 6th ed., 2003. Observations on Old English cognate "sceadan" in relation to Modern German "scheiden" ("to separate") are my own.


Comment:
Interesting, this sense connection between "excrements", "defecate" and "separate". In physcial terms, the body "separates" (sceadan) what is not needed any longer and is left at a place where all people are equal and where all of us have to go from time to time (equality of people existing at least there....lol), and a shithead separates from the rest of the world as a fool, the latter not being an instance of where all people are equal.

It is funny what language actually can do and how it works at times. This is a free lesson for all the esteemed "scholars" like Jimmy, Levicoff, and Grover to read. This forum here provides them with the real enlightenment because darkness and ignorance seem to persist at degreediscussion.com. Let's help them a bit....lol.


I will add my poor, "unscholarly" comments on raca later this day if I can find some data on that.

[ham]

there a still some small linguistic islands in Israel and probably also in Syria - in some villages, they still speak a kind of Aramaic as it used was used by the time of Jesus. Interesting....
Old English is also a "dead" language....

I do not believe there is ANYWHERE a place where a language is spoken exactly as it was 2000 years ago. I once watched a documentary explaining how different Christian sects look at short, selected bible passages...hardly surprising, there were huge differences in both translation and interpretation...sadly enough, no 2000 years old scribe is there to set them straight. It is a bit like string theory...everyone has his own. An example? The word 'idiot' comes from ancient Greek to mean 'private citizen'...and one of the supposed origins of 'cretin' is 'christian'...

[Vice]

I have done some research and also typed the Koine Greek and Hebrew renderings of RAKA/RACA with a special software I have called "Global Writer" and then created a PDF. From the PDF I created an image. So, I hope that the relevant linguistic data will display nicely for everybody to see.

[Vice]

there a still some small linguistic islands in Israel and probably also in Syria - in some villages, they still speak a kind of Aramaic as it used was used by the time of Jesus. Interesting....
Old English is also a "dead" language....

I do not believe there is ANYWHERE a place where a language is spoken exactly as it was 2000 years ago.

That`s correct. The Aramaic spoken today must of course be linguistically different from that variety spoken at the time of Jesus.

[ham]

Most of the above flies over my head...
But over the internet it's common to find all sorts of 'experts' in all sorts of things...online, because none would take them seriously in real life...they are too busy delivering pizzas, driving trucks or filming gay teen fairies who cram the entire kitchen up their love hole anyways...