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Did we get everyone? I think you beat me 14-10, even if I count the one where I accidentally changed your block. Good work! --[[User:MarkGall|MarkGall]] 00:26, 8 October 2009 (EDT)
Did we get everyone? I think you beat me 14-10, even if I count the one where I accidentally changed your block. Good work! --[[User:MarkGall|MarkGall]] 00:26, 8 October 2009 (EDT)
:I think that's all of them, and I think I changed a few of your blocks as well. These 503 errors are killing me! [[User:JacobB|JacobB]] 00:28, 8 October 2009 (EDT)
:I think that's all of them, and I think I changed a few of your blocks as well. These 503 errors are killing me! [[User:JacobB|JacobB]] 00:28, 8 October 2009 (EDT)
== Conservative Bible Project ==
Greetings, friend.
This is [[User:TerryH]]. This Project has been done in a willy-nilly fashion for too long. I certainly appreciate the yeoman's work you have been doing, i.e. putting up the tables having the KJV original verses, ready to be translated. I wanted to get that in before I told you something else: Under the authority of Mr. [[User;Aschlafly|Schlafly]], I am taking command of this Project.
My qualifications are these: I am well-enough versed in ancient Greek to pick up a Greek text (in fact, it's the Greek New Testament, 28th ed., by Nestle and Aland, published by the German Bible Society) and read it almost as fast as I can read English. I've also begun to study Biblical Hebrew. Beyond that, I've been an administrator on CP for a long time, and the administration feels that it needs to have one of their own in command, instead of seeing uncoordinated efforts being made.
The best way to illustrate my qualifications is with a sample. In one week, I translated all of the Gospel According to Matthew. You can read my work [[Matthew 1-9 (Translated)|here]], [[Matthew 10-19 (Translated)|here]], and [[Matthew 20-28 (Translated)|here]].
So much for my own qualifications. Now I'd like to know yours, and how you see yourself functioning in this Project.
I appreciate your defenses of this Project. You have the "fire in the belly" of a good soldier.
Let me set forth, as well, my philosophy of translation. We need to translate the Bible into good ''idiomatic'' English. That means that we not only translate Greek words into English words, but also Greek idiom into English idiom. You can see examples in Matthew 27. For example: "The last error will be worse than the first" should read, I maintain, "If that happens, we'll have a worse problem."
Or: "The crowd marvelled, saying, There has not been such so seen in Israel" should read, "The crowd said, "Wow! Nothing like that has ever been seen in Israel!" See the difference? How do I defend that? Well, the Greek word rendered "to marvel" conveys the sense of someone staring at a thing, letting his jaw drop to the floor, and finally saying, "Wow. Just, wow."
I'll have more to say on some other Talk pages. But first, I need to hear from you. Reply either here or, best of all, on ''my'' Talk page.
In Him,
--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 21:44, 13 October 2009 (EDT)