From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada Deutschland
Date: 13 Oct 1994 08:29:12 -0400
Date: 1994-10-13T08:29:12-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37j96o$p43@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37ipp4$m5@speedy.cci.de
this use of catholic, to mean universal, is of course quite legitimate,
but not very familiar to American English speakers.
IN the old Episcopal prayer book, there was a reference to "one holy
catholic and apostolic church", it is in the apostle's creed (I am not
sure whether that language survives into the most recent version of the
prayer book).
Naturally this surprises some Episcopaleans, and it has to be explained
here that catholic (ordinary english adjective with lower case c) simply
means universal, whereas the Catholic church (proper name, upper case C,
is QUITE a different matter, short for Roman Catholic -- which if you
think about the general meaning is a bit of a contradiction in terms :-)
Anyway, all those who believe in "the holy catholic and apostolic Ada"
keep up the crusade :-)
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1994-10-11 17:31 Ada Deutschland Prof Weber-Wulff
1994-10-12 14:28 ` Ted Dennison
1994-10-13 8:05 ` Matthias Suilmann
1994-10-13 12:29 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-10-15 15:26 ` catholic Ada (formerly: Ada Deutschland) Anthony Gargaro
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1994-09-29 10:20 Ada Deutschland Peter Hermann
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