Heidegger

In a message dated 06/04/2007 05:06:21 GMT Standard Time, Bernx at aol.com
writes:

It is noted at >
_http://www.av1611.http://www.ahttp://w_
 http://www.av1611.org/666/www_666.html)
“Is ‘www in Hebrew equal to 666? ‘www’ is the acronym for world wide web and
is normally used as the prefix, or first node of the Internet domain
names….The Hebrew and Greek alphabet does not have separate characters or
alphabets for numbers and letters. Letters are also used as numbers. So each
letter is a numerical value. The Hebrew equivalent of our “w” is the letter “vav”
or “waw”. The numerical value of vav is 6. So the English “www”
transliterated into Hebrew is “vav vav vav”, which numerically is 666.”

Indeed, is the internet our pathway to obscurantist mumbo jumbo and
and Babel-on revisited by 2012?
Bernard

Jud:
Firmly flushing the toilet handle and leaving aside the driblets of warm,
wet, foul-smelling metaphysical meconium that is the cabala and the supposed
occult influence of numbers on human affairs to trickle into the cloaca and be
washed out to sea to join the burgeoning sludge of Heideggerian effluent
which nowadays pollutes the transcendental sinking-sands of the New World - WWW
is NOT equal to 666.

The internet pathway to obscurantist mumbo jumbo and Babel-onanistic
*Being* revisited, is paved with postings of sick cabalarish rubbish type like
the stinklink above, to say nothing of the defectionist hermeneutical
papcrap represented as *insights* into ravings of the sick mind of Adolf
[eliminate them all] Heidegger.

A peek at the link below will show you that *waw* equates phonetically to F
or V. Diagraphically W does NOT correspond to the Hebrew diagraph WAW at
all - the Hebrew symbol is entirely different. The European W is a
comparatively recent - a N. European creation and a doubling of U [V] into UU [often
transcribed as *V V* or *W* for convenience} try scratching UU or stone, and
then the straight scraping strokes of V V linked together into W and you
will see.

_http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/alphabet.htm_
 http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/alphabet….)

There is no connection with the Hebrew *waw* for the earliest European
form of the letter W was a doubled _V_  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V) used in
the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this
digraph that the modern name “double U” comes. This digraph was not
extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn but
W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken
wynn’s place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose
branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth
century in both English and German was in the form of an “n” whose rightmost
branch curved around as in a cursive “v”
The sounds /w/ (spelled with U/V) and /b/ of Classical Latin developed into
a bilabial approximant /ß/ between vowels, in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore,
V no longer represented adequately the Germanic /w/. In German, the phoneme
/w/ later became /v/; this is why German W represents that sound. In Dutch, W
is a labiodental approximant (with the exception of words with EEUW, which
have /e? w/), or other diphthongs containing -uw.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W)

So strictly speaking there IS no ‘W’ equivalent in Hebrew of the Northern
European late middle age creation of the letter UU = W. Though most of
Middle eastern and European alphabets can be traced to early Phoenecian, which
was ultimately adopted (with additions and variations) by the Greeks and Romans
and which we use today, later diagraphical improvisations differ. As early
as the middle-Aramaic period the Hebrew letters ט, ק, ש appear in forms
almost identical with those now in use, though in the older oph the stem is not
longer than in the other letters, and it hangs from the horizontal line; the
stems of the Shin are drawn together to a point, and often the left-hand
stem passes beyond this point.

The W is a Northern European combination of U - UU rendered as W for the
convenience of stone-masons and caligraphers. The original rendering of U as V
was simply because straight cuts are far easier to render on stone than
curved ones [cf. the runic alphabet] In northern Europe a two-letter sequence of
vv or uu became fused into the new letter w, providing the 26 letters of the
Roman alphabet used for modern English.

W – Shin, the tooth, which actualyl LOOKS like a W may have originally
represented a bow. Although it was first pronounced sh. After 900 B.C. the
Greeks borrowed the sign from Phoenician and reversed/curved its form, changed
its name to Sigma and made the sign stand for the consonant.
Whilst the Greeks used it sideways for sigma (Σ). The Romans rounded it to
make S.

During the Middle Ages, j and u appeared in writing as variants of i and v,
[as v for stonemasons] respectively; they acquired the status of separate
letters during the Renaissance.

The twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet, ancestor of the Roman letters U,
V, W, and Y. It is usually rendered with Y in borrowings from Greek, as in
psyche and symphonic and hyoid. In scholarly transcriptions of Ancient Greek
it is often rendered with U, as in psukhê.
In Classical Greek it was pronounced [y] like the German Ü, French U,
Finnish Y. This could be long or short. Later it changed to an [i] sound, the same
as the letters eta and iota, which is how it’s pronounced in Modern Greek.
Originally it would have been an [u], and possibly still was when the Romans
(or Etruscans) started using the Greek alphabet.
It was the first letter added to the Semitic alphabet by the Greeks, which
had ended with Τ tau. The Romans used it in the shape V as both a vowel and a
consonant (these were only regarded as separate letters in modern times).
Later they re-borrowed the Υ-shaped letter as Y to write Greek borrowings.
Educated Romans pronounced it with the Greek [y] sound, but after a while it
merged with the Roman I. In the Middle Ages it was rounded for the vowel U and
doubled up to represent its original consonant value, W. This is how it’s the
ancestor of all four.
The name means “bare U” and was apparently given to it after it had merged
in pronunciation with the diphthong ΟΙ in Byzantine times, but before it had
become I (towards the year 1000). You’ve got a choice about how to pronounce
the name. I say it yoop-SI-lon.

If W DID have the meaning 666 with its childish reference to the devil then
does that mean that the bearers of all these other acronymics below and the
other 2000 not listed are similarly agencies of Old Nick?

WWW Whitehouse Well Wishers ***** WWW Wow World of Warcraft *****
WWW Waterford Wedgwood ***** WWW Walla Walla Washington ***** WWW Wyniki
Wyszukiwania ***** WWW Win Without War ***** WWW W3C the World Wide *****
WWW Women Who Write

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