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    John of Japan replied to the thread Translation Terminology.
    Actually, I goofed. I should have written hapax legomenon, which is the singular, rather than the plural hapax legomena. I mix those up...
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    John of Japan reacted to Logos1560's post in the thread Has English Degraded? with Like Like.
    Perhaps they merely illustrate how much Middle English or Early Modern English retained or followed Latin grammar since imprecise Early...
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    John of Japan reacted to Logos1560's post in the thread Has English Degraded? with Like Like.
    James Moses Grainger wrote: “The use of the subjunctive in the King James Version is characterized by great looseness and irregularity...
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    John of Japan reacted to Mike B's post in the thread Translation Terminology with Like Like.
    Since I've been a member of the BB forums, I have become thankful for Google's dictionary. Honestly, if someone walked up to me and...
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    John of Japan reacted to Mike B's post in the thread Translation Terminology with Like Like.
    My dad used to say: "Faster than a turpentined cat". I believe this was based on an experience that did not go well for the cat. Also...
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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...
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