I’m learning all sorts of new things reading Will Storr Versus the Supernatural. From page 273:
‘Do you believe in heaven and hell,’ I ask [David Vee, the Founder of Ghosts-UK].
‘No,’ he says, ‘people were seeing ghosts BC–Before Christ–so that rules that one out totally. The earth is millions and millions of years old. You know, I think the Bible is a damn good book, but it’s nothing like the original translation. How can we translate that when we still have difficulty translating the original Latin, which is only five hundred years old? It’s very difficult, because it has so many syllabuses and nouns and whatever. It’s like the voices on the EVPs I’ve recorded here. Most of them are in German Latin, which is what people spoke until the nineteenth century. It wasn’t until eighteen-twenty-something that we began to speak English. A lot of people don’t appreciate that fact.
I read through that paragraph a couple of times trying to make sense of it but eventually gave up.
It strikes me that David Vee should visit his local library (the one that isn’t haunted) and get a few books out on the history of the English language. I’d also recommend a beginner’s guide to rhetoric and a primer on English grammar.