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::Ostensibly does not imply deceit in English.  I saw that nowhere in its definition in the dictionary.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:31, 8 November 2009 (EST)

::Ostensibly does not imply deceit in English.  I saw that nowhere in its definition in the dictionary.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:31, 8 November 2009 (EST)

:::Well, if I said that you are ostensibly here to translate the Bible, I'd be implying that you were really here to do something else.  

:::Well, if I said that you are ostensibly here to translate the Bible, I'd be implying that you were really here to do something else. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ostensibly  I know that's not the *only* meaning, but I'd like to avoid *any* possible misunderstanding on this point.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ostensibly  I know that's not the *only* meaning, but I'd like to avoid *any* possible misunderstanding on this point.

:::Presumably Mary and others didn't "suppose" (KJV's word) Him to be the literal son of Joseph, either.   

Presumably Mary and others didn't "suppose" (KJV's word) Him to be the literal son of Joseph, either.   

Another option might be to say that He *seemed* to be or that he was *apparently* the son of Joseph, which is probably no further from the original and reads a little better.  

Another option might be to say that He *seemed* to be the son of Joseph, which is probably no further from the original and reads a little better. [[User:AdeleM|AdeleM]] 18:50, 8 November 2009 (EST)

:::I'm not trying to dumb this down-- replacing complex language with simple would be dumbing down, and I'm not doing that.  I'm just trying to hang on to some of the plainness of the KJV verse.  [[User:AdeleM|AdeleM]] 18:50, 8 November 2009 (EST)