Featured The Need for New Translations

Did you get these definitions from Webster? If you did, the BB rule (and the ethical thing) is to source your quotes.

In the mean time, here is a definition for transliteration from a linguist: "The representation of a sound, phoneme, or word or uttarence in the conventional symbols of another language or system or writing" (Mario Pei and Frank Gaynor, Dictionary of Linguistics, 219).

In other words, when you are transliterating, only the sounds of the original language are represented, not the meaning. It is still the foreign language, not English (or whatever language you are transliterating into).

You can trust me on this. I have transliterated literally 1000s of times from Greek into English or Japanese, from English into Greek, from Japanese into English, from Chinese into English, etc.

Good! Then perhaps you'll express yourself more clearly next time.

Actually, not a single translation from any language anywhere in the world is transliteration. They are two different things.

The only way the KJV can be transliterated into any other language is if the language is something other than English.

The KJV (which I love and use) is a translation. The translators themselves said so in their Preface, "The Translators to the Readers," which you apparently really need to read.

Look kid, don't teach your grandma to suck eggs. I teach Greek and translate the Bible by profession. What do you do for a living?

καρδιά = "heart" is translation.
καρδιά = kardia is transliteration.
καρδιά = "human" is paraphrase.

Here is the Japanese Lifeline NT (my team's work) of John 3:16: なぜなら、ご自分の唯一お生みになったご子息を与えられたほどに、神はこうしてこの世を愛された。それは、すべてご子息を信じる人が、滅びることなく永遠の命を持つためなのである。

Here is the transliteration in the English alphabet: Naze nara, gojibun no yuitsu oumare ni natta goshisoku wo ataerareta hodo ni, Kami wa koushite kono yo wo ai sareta. Sore wa, subete goshisoku wo shinjiru hito ga, horobiru koto naku eien no inochi wo motsu tame na no de aru.

Does that make sense to you? Or course not, if you don't know Japanese.

I think what you are trying to say is that the Bible should be translated literally instead of by dynamic equivalence or sense-to-sense or paraphrase. If so, I agree with you.

 

Who is "they"?

 

Well, that's obviously heretical. If that's what he believes, what in the world is he doing here?

 

Well, I did say "if."

But I do note in your profile that you don't have a home church. What's that about? (Just curious. No need to answer if you don't want to.)

Gramps