[sword-devel] Red Letter text
Michael Paul Johnson
sword-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:56:51 -0700
--=====================_3280260==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
At 09:52 PM 1/24/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Isn't the solution to have a tag that is understood to mean "these are the
>words of Jesus", as opposed to "this is in red". And then to allow users to
>display the text inside the "words of Jesus" tags however they please.
My thoughts, exactly.
>Surely quotation marks are only a similar mark put in to indicate a
>translators ideas about the original, and we are not arguing that they are
>blasphemous or anything?
You would be amazed what people argue about with Bible translators. (I
know... being the most publicly accessible English Bible translator on the
Internet). Quotation marks are a consequence of translation. Proper English
demands them. Translation is required by the Great Commission. (How else
are we going to spread the Gospel to ALL nations?) I really don't think God
would ask us to do something blasphemous.
_______
Michael Paul Johnson
mpj@eBible.org http://ebible.org/mpj
--=====================_3280260==_.ALT
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
<html>
At 09:52 PM 1/24/00 +0000, you wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Isn't the solution to have a tag that is
understood to mean "these are the<br>
words of Jesus", as opposed to "this is in red". And then
to allow users to<br>
display the text inside the "words of Jesus" tags however they
please.</blockquote><br>
My thoughts, exactly.<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Surely quotation marks are only a similar mark
put in to indicate a<br>
translators ideas about the original, and we are not arguing that they
are<br>
blasphemous or anything?</blockquote><br>
You would be amazed what people argue about with Bible translators. (I
know... being the most publicly accessible English Bible translator on
the Internet). Quotation marks are a consequence of translation. Proper
English demands them. Translation is required by the Great Commission.
(How else are we going to spread the Gospel to ALL nations?) I really
don't think God would ask us to do something blasphemous.<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>_______</div>
<br>
<div>Michael Paul
Johnson
</div>
<div>mpj@eBible.org
<a href="http://ebible.org/mpj" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://ebible.org/mpj</a></div>
</html>
--=====================_3280260==_.ALT--