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    John of Japan replied to the thread Translation Terminology.
    historical linguistics (also called diachronic linguistics): the study of how language develops and changes over a period of time, in...
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    John of Japan reacted to Logos1560's post in the thread Has English Degraded? with Like Like.
    Yes, the very title of his thread affirms that he was arguing for the superiority of 1611 English. He did not establish his claim to be...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Well folks, I give up on Anthony. Every time I think I've understood the turgid prose of his positions, he accuses me of dishonesty. I...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    In Post #33 you wrote calling the KJV "a common, pure, preserved Word of God in English." Again, you accuse me of dishonesty. Frankly...
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    John of Japan reacted to Logos1560's post in the thread Has English Degraded? with Like Like.
    It is not a misrepresentation since you suggested that another poster was not engaging in "honest debate" which would question his...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    I don't not consider the matter of whether or not one prays for Bible translator missionaries to be a "moral" issue at all, and I can't...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    It was not a misrepresentation, it was a logical conclusion. No matter. The very title of your thread is, "Has English Degraded? The...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    No, you argued that it is more pure and high quality than modern English. If that is true than it ought to communicate better than...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Tibetan is an interesting language. I know a man who is currently translating a Tibetan Bible. It has to be in classical Tibetan (I...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    I know of ministries passing out KJV Bibles in various countries: PNG, African countries, most recently Portugal. (One of our deacons...
  • John of Japan
    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Please answer my point that if 1611 English is a superior way to communicate, you should be communicating with it to talk to us here on...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Thanks for proving my points! I think.... :Thumbsdown
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Your a better man that I am at Greek, then! :) Having said that, knowing classical Greek would certainly help in learning koine. And as...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Translation Terminology.
    And now the elephant in the room, dynamic equivalence. Here is how it's inventor, Eugene Nida, described it: “quality of a translation...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread Has English Degraded?.
    Let's see if he'll answer that.... Anthony, why don't you communicate with us in KJV English, if it is superior? Most of us have read...
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