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Giford Posted Jan 29, 2008
Yay!
Note to sub-ed: don't forget to change the link to 'The Ethical Decalogue vs the Ritual Decalogue', which has also just been picked from PR.
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Fizzymouse- no place like home Posted Jan 29, 2008
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Mar 6, 2008
Hi Giford, I've been given your controversial entry (judging by this PR thread) to sub-edit. You can find the result here: A31699308
Just a question, because I have no possibility to check this: is it really 'menchildren' and 'firstfruits' in the quote, amd passover uncapitalised?
Bel
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Giford Posted Mar 6, 2008
Hi Bel,
The short answer is 'yes'. The quote is taken from the King James version - that's how they translated it, menchildren, firstfruits and small-p-passover and all.
Obviously it was originally in Hebrew, which (at the time) didn't distinguish capital letters and where every word has a gender (like French - so you can't say 'children', only 'sons' or 'daughters'), and where some words don't translate directly into English.
So yes, someone made decisions about how to translate the text, but I would say leave it as it is. I think the 'thou shalt not' language of the KJV is firmly tied to the Ten Commandments in many people's minds.
Heh, didn't consider you poor sub-eds with your 20th Century spell-checkers when I was copying 16th Century words!
Gif
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Mar 6, 2008
No problem, Gif, I had a similar problem with one of my own entries - the part I quoted was from an US version, and somebody posted to EF to point out the 'wrong' speliing, so I thought I'd better make sure.
I take it that I can hand it back to the eds then?
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