[sword-devel] Translations that that use 'you' for both singular and plural second person pronouns?

[Greg Hellings]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Troy is correct - I was misremembering from the distant past when I used the
> NASB for regular reading.
>
> Asterisks are used where historical presents in Greek had been translated
> with an English past tense to conform to modern usage.
>
> Yet I do also recall seeing a modern English translation in which asterisks
> were used to mark you (plural).

There used to be a module in the SWORD repositories called the
Analytical-Literal Translation which was approximately a Greek
interlinear. It used an * to denote plural second person pronouns. It
was removed from the repositories, apparently for copyright reasons?

--Greg

>
> Without some such method, passages such as Luke 22:31-32 are unclear to the
> modern reader.
> In this passage, 'you' (etc) for Peter is singular, but the other 'you's are
> plural for all the disciples.
>
> David
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