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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Language change is well sick

October 10, 2009

NIck seems to think it amazing that language changes according to majority use. The comments on his post are worth reading for examples of confusion between speakers who are either “bilingual” in register, or else wannabe wicked dudes. Nick has to ask TC whether by “wicked” he means “bad” or “good”
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An alphabetical oddity of Bible translation

October 10, 2009

It doesn’t seem to matter very much whether they adopt sense-for-sense or word-for-word theories of translation. Most translations of the Bible, when it comes to Revelation 1:8, 21:6 and 22:13, seem to stick to the Lord describing himself as “The Alpha and the Omega”.
There are two exceptions I know of: TEV and derivatives have “the [...]

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It doesn’t matter whether you have anything to say …

October 10, 2009

… as long as you say things regularly, frequently and as often as you can. Blogs with lots of posts each day will score more highly than blogs with only one or a few each day (at least on most methods of measurement). Never mind the quality, feel the width.

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I would like to thank you for this award …

October 10, 2009

… Being awarded the most constructive blog award leaves me feeling humbled and undeserving. I am well aware that I have not yet written the post that will end the culture wars, but I aspire to. I know, deep down, that there are others more worthy than I, who have made blogging a constructive contribution [...]

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