Monday, February 26, 2007
Interesting Problem
I'm writing a story about a time when I stayed overnight with one of my friends in elementary school, and then the next morning accompanied his family to mass. I was raised loosely Methodist (I say loosely because my parents made me go to Sunday school and all that jazz until around 12, and then said that I could do what I wanted, which was obviously to not go to church), so the whole Catholicism thing was fascinating to me which you will discover in the story. The problem I had today is that I need to pluralize the word Jesus, and I've never done that before. Jesii? Jesuses just sounds wrong. I know that I should probably say something like "...pictures of Jesus..." but I don't want to. Dictionary.com doesn't list a plural for Jesus at all, so I can't tell if Jesus is like a moose or what. I think a phone call to the Vatican would cause an international event seeing as the close-minded Catholics believe in only one God and would fail to see the occasion for the plural of Jesus (Holy Trinity Hypocrites :-P). My Chile Cheese Hamburger Helper is done, so pondering is postponed.
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When would you use the plural of Jesus? Are all the Jesii getting together for coffee later tonight? Are all the Jesuses going to go fishing? Would they mind if I came along?
The first time I ever set foot in a Catholic church was for the funeral of a friend. I'll admit the Catholic church can be a scary place when you feel like a total outsider. I was nineteen and terrified.
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