Answer the Question with a Question (6)

[LaSorcia]

In which time zone?

 

[Paidiske]

Don't you know where I am?

 

[Chesterton]

At this point in time, isn't it always after many midnights?

 

[faroukfarouk]

Isn't noon more healthy to be around than at midnight?

 

[LaSorcia]

Why, are you in a dangerous neighbourhood?

 

[Chesterton]

Is it healthy to be out running around out in the sun?

 

[Paidiske]

Don't you need vitamin D?

 

[Chesterton]

Aren't vitamins just a theory, like the round earth one?

 

[Paidiske]

Oh dear, where to start...?

 

[LaSorcia]

How about, "In the beginning, God..."?

 

[Paidiske]

Does the Bible mention vitamins?

 

[LaSorcia]

Would the contemporary reader have understood that term?

 

[Chesterton]

Did you know that the word "vitamin", originally vitamine (1912), was coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk (1884-1967), from Latin vita "life" (from PIE root *gwei- "to live") + amine, because they were thought to contain amino acids, and that the terminal -e formally was stripped off when scientists learned the true nature of the substance; -in was acceptable because it was used for neutral substances of undefined composition, and that the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) was introduced at the same time (1920)?

 

[Paidiske]

So, not Biblical then?

 

[faroukfarouk]

Doesn't Proverbs mention 'a dinner of herbs where love is'?

 

[Paidiske]

Chapter and verse?

 

[gennypearl]

do we need to be that specific?

 

[Paidiske]

How else can I check?

 

[gennypearl]

can't you google that?

 

[Paidiske]

But what if his is an obscure translation?