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::With all due respect, this is not at all what I mean. Karin is not the cognate for Katherina, Catherine is. (And that's what we call the saint after whom the Sinai monastery is named.) Neither is Jimmy the cognate for Demetrios, Demetrius is. This is not a matter of using a different name to fit in to an alien society, but of using the name for the saint that has been in use in the culture for over a thousand years. As in, using John instead of Ioann. That's obvious, clearly more obvious than using Ignatius rather than Ignatios, but the issue is the same. --[[User:Basil|Basil]] 10:11, April 15, 2008 (UTC)
 
:::Hi Basil, I know exactly what you were talking about, I was just chatting in the above paragraph - hence the smiley faces ''':-)''' ... my paragraph is cut in two, the first is about the way we change our names (nothing to do with ur question) and the second was about how I AGREE WITH YOU! But was expressing that the Orthodox Church as a whole needs to take ownership of this matter and put it down ...and I think I used OCA as a good example of who can do this. :-) [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 23:05, April 15, 2008 (UTC)
::While Athonite monks are going to tend to be the authorities on the spiritual life, whether they are authorities on English usage will depend a great deal on which Athonite we are talking about. I have a Vasily in my parish, who is of Russian extraction, and I call him by that form of the name, because that is the form he uses. However, when I speak of St. Basil, I use the English form of the name, because it is the ''English'' form of the name, and I am speaking in English. [[User:Frjohnwhiteford|Frjohnwhiteford]] 11:14, April 15, 2008 (UTC)
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