Comments on: Is ‘Celestialized’ a Mormon word?

By: Katya

Katya — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:16:00 +0000

I’ve heard it, too.

By: Th.

Th. — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:00:33 +0000

No, I’ve heard that. Not for years, though.

By: Jonathan Langford

Jonathan Langford — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:27:57 +0000

On a more lighthearted note: Has anyone but me encountered “twinkled” (as in, “changed in the twinkling of an eye”)? It may be a coinage of my mother’s…

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:26:32 +0000

On an episode of Bones–that takes place at a funeral home–Agent Booth decides that talking openly about the investigation would be rude. So instead of saying the victim was “murdered,” they will say he was “translated.”

Angela Montenegro: Hey, you stole the body?
Agent Booth: No. No. No. No. We didn’t steal it, you see? We borrowed it. Okay? Cam and Bones think it was translated.
Angela Montenegro: Uh, what?
Agent Booth: Translated. It’s code for murder. That’s how we’re saying it today. Translated.

They keep this gag going for the whole show. It’s so funny from a Mormon perspective I have to believe a Mormon dreamed it up.

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:41:42 +0000

Very cool, Katherine.

By: Lee Allred

Lee Allred — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:25:41 +0000

Thanks, Katherine!

Using Davies’s OED corpus, this was the sixth hit:

1387 A.D.
Higden (Rolls) II. 213 And so schulde ðe body.. be translated and chaunged in ðe blisse of heuene wið oute deienge and deeð.

Even by Tennessee windage standards, my Middle English is weak at best, but this looks like the right context. If anyone could provide a translation better than my guestimate — “And so should the body be translated and changed in the bliss of heaven without dying and death”??? — I’d appreciate it.

By: Katherine Morris

Katherine Morris — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:52:32 +0000

You guys should check out Mark Davies’s corpora for research like this: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:17:03 +0000

Here's one that's very Mormon heavy: telestial (715 results). Translated is unique but not search friendly -- at least not until contextual search is more powerful. Translate being brings up a workable number of hits, however.

By: Lee Allred

Lee Allred — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:30:07 +0000

Actually, William, I came across one just a couple days ago during a writing session. Not so much a new word as a Mormon-specific definition: “translated” (as in “translated beings.”

I don’t think we use “translated” quite the way that others do.

I’d be glad to be wrong in this case; I need to use it in this context but am worried a Gentile (yeesh! Another Mormon-specific defiination) reader might not get the term.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:17:33 +0000

You could look at the list of terms on Mormon Terms. Not all of them are all that interesting, but I'll be more than a few will be. How about "Ancient of Days" or "Blood Atonement" or "Center Place of Zion"?