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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:10:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   I can never tell if a moley is holy or sacraligious...

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     customdesigned@qoto.org's status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:10:53 JST customdesigned

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     @freemo "holy" means "set apart". So unless you have set a particular moley apart for religious purposes - it is an ordinary moley. A moley becomes sacrilegious when a holy (set apart) moley is desecrated, or an ordinary moley is used to mock holy moleys.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:47:47 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     Obviously I know this is a joke based on its etymology, so lol.

     But just to be serious for a moment (a small pet peve of mine). Technically it does **not** mean "set apart". Holy means the following (its definition):

     dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.

     Now if you go back 2000 years ago to long before the word "holy" even existed there was a word in a different language (hebrew and greek) that meant "set apart". That word, along with its definition, over many generations, evolved into the modern word holy with its current definition. But the etymology of a word is **not** what the word **means**, that is an incorrect interpritation of a word's etymology (and a pet peve of mine as I hear that often).

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     customdesigned@qoto.org's status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 04:43:00 JST customdesigned

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     @freemo What I kept hearing with your original joke were the countless Batman sitcom episodes I watched as a child, and Robin would exclaim: "Holy ____ Batman!" Fill in the blank with some especially ludicrous aspect of the story.

     https://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/the-definitive-ranking-of-robins-exclamations-from-batma