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Isn't there a spelling error there? Or can Yahweh be transliterated several ways?
Also, post does not seem likely to cause bliss :(
There's debate; in short, the Tetragrammaton (יהוה, or YHWH) is intentionally unpronounceable for complicated reasons. Really, if you're going to spell out the name of God anyway, one set of vowels is as good as another - or you may as well just say "God", it's not like it means anything.
TL;DR: Yes, there's multiple ways to spell it. (And no, I'm not going to say 'summary'. Because I'm contrarian, that's why.)
What's confusing is how out of character this seems for DanielLC. I'm assigning a non-negligible probability to the hypothesis that ve walked away from a computer without logging out (or something) and this is just a drive-by troll.
It was a spelling error. The fact that there's no "correct" spelling is a coincidence.
This doesn't seem that out of character. If one looks at Daniel's contributions while his comments are generally of high quality is submissions for discussion threads are of highly variable quality.
I was comparing based on content, not quality. I didn't quite get what this was supposed to be at first- it might forestall some confusion if the title were edited to include the prefix [Omake].
Of course, if it were me posting this I probably would have said