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How would one say in Greek “Big Bang”?

How would one say in Latin “Big Bang”?

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Μπιγκ Μπανγκ

magnus crepitus

(just a little Google Translate, and some web searching… ;))
 
I am the OP.

I wonder how this received five stars.

Which is correct: Mehanous Ekrisy, or magnus crepitus?

Or, are they both correct?

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Jim_Baur said:
Which is correct: Mehanous Ekrisy, or magnus crepitus?
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The first is in Greek, and the second, Latin. 😉

When I typed “big bang” into Google Translate, it gave me “magnus bang”. When Google Translate doesn’t know what to do with a word, it just copies it verbatim. So, I would say that “magnus bang” doesn’t work. However, ‘crepitus’ means explosion, so that’s why I chose it.

I found “Μπιγκ Μπανγκ” not only in Google Translate, but in Greek-language sites talking about the Big Bang. Are you asking about modern Greek, or Koine Greek (i.e., the language of the Greek New Testament)?
 
Gorgias

THANKS!

Please don’t tell anyone how stupid and slow I am.

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Part of the traditional EF Holy Thursday (and the OF, where the pastor is cool with it) is for the choir, or for someone else in the wings, to make the sound of the earthquake and thunder when Christ dies in the Gospel reading. It is simulated many ways: choirbooks pounding on pews, dropping pebbles on metal sheets, shaking metal sheets, wooden clappers, or rattling noisemakers.

This sound is also called “crepitus.”

Fun fact!
 
Mintaka

Thanks!!!

Now for some fun.

You mean that the Biblical “Mehanous Ekrisy” was the thunder that Moses heard on Mt. Sinai?

Now back to being serious, we need the Hebrew for Big Bang or explosion.

I am still wondering, how did this get five stars?
 
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