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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by chc on Thursday December 15, 2011 @05:31PM (#3358358)
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. My point was that Χριστός has been abbreviated to "X" for thousands of years without any implication of disrespect. I don't see how the fact that writing out the Greek word implies formal respect is supposed to disagree with me.
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Re:Who's Opposed To .XXX Domain Names? Not Exactly Who You'd... by Helianthus on Friday December 16, 2011 @11:36PM (#3363398)
In that case, I don't understand the point you were trying to make by saying "Except Christians were the first ones to replace Christ's name with X, the first letter in the Greek Χριστός."

It sounded like you were trying to disagree with my assertion that Xtian had a certain rhetorical intent, but you did it by bringing in a completely different rhetorical construct.

I do know the origins of the X abbreviation.

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