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17/12/2008 05:49:39
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
 
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>>>>>...
>>>>>It's not a bug, it's part of the design.
>>>>
>>>>Amen
>>>
>>>You said "amen". It shows this's just a "wish", not "approval".. :)))
>>
>>In the sence it's used in christian church it's approval. And it's the end word of a prayer it also mean "end".
>>
>>So I say Approval / End
>>
>>Agnes (^.^)
>
>I always thought Amen meant "Let it be so", as in "I beseech the Lord to make this [what's just been prayed for] happen".

Literally. So this is an approval to that was said in the prayer? Or do I understand the word the wrong way?

We use (colloquial) "Amen und aus" -> "Amen and end" to express that there is nothing more to be said and we agree.

See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a&p=11

Agnes
Words are given to man to enable him to conceal his true feelings.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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