Why does the Infinity Patrol emphasize learning Aramaic?

[Steven Jones]

Aramaic is listed as one of the most important languages for Patrol agents
to learn. I can see why Latin would be important, but Aramaic? Aside from
missions for the Church, I can't see the relevance of it.

[Tetsubo]

Post by Steven Jones
Aramaic is listed as one of the most important languages for Patrol
agents to learn. I can see why Latin would be important, but Aramaic?
Aside from missions for the Church, I can't see the relevance of it.

People like to muck around with Christ?

[Ingo Siekmann]

Post by Tetsubo

Post by Steven Jones
Aramaic is listed as one of the most important languages for Patrol
agents to learn. I can see why Latin would be important, but Aramaic?
Aside from missions for the Church, I can't see the relevance of it.

People like to muck around with Christ?

Yeah, somebody has to stop the many "saviour of the Lord" wanna-bes who
pop up in some echos.

And very few people outside the patrol (and probably none on Centrum)
speek it.

BTW, what kind of Aramaic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language

Bye
Ingo

[v$af$ ("ppint. at pplay")]

Post by Steven Jones
Aramaic is listed as one of the most important languages for Patrol agents
to learn. I can see why Latin would be important, but Aramaic? Aside from
missions for the Church, I can't see the relevance of it.

- it was the lingua franca (somewhat foreshadowing that phrase)
of one of the three most powerful empires of its time, and one
of the main languages of trade within that empire; and it was
also the common language of much of that empire, and much also
of the propinquant themes of the later roman empire (that we
tend to call byzantine) until it was replaced by turkish in the
eastern areas lost by the byzantines, and arabic in the non-
persian-speaking western (and central?) provinces of the con-
quered parthian empire, that had fought the byzantines to a
mutual exhaustion just in time for the arabic islamic influx.

- since both the temporal, and both the religious contests each
could have gone either way, it behoves any patrol agent there
to be fluent in the languages and in the religious concepts at
debate, to keep a very close eye upon any development that might
indicate the existence of a foreign plot to upset the balance of
the factors natural at this point to the virgin, unmodified state
that had led, eventually, to the setting up of the patrol...

..leastways, that's what your commanders would have you believe;
centrum's point of view may be relied upon to differ a little.

- love, a ppint. pondering the possibilities of primate paradoxes

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