Comments on: Glossary http://goddidntsaythat.com Bible Translations and Mistranslations Wed, 30 May 2012 21:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wayne Leman http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-13038 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:51:08 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-13038 literal

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-13037 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:50:14 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-13037 paraphrase

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-13036 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:49:24 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-13036 How about the term “translation” itself?

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-3522 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:27:49 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-3522 Re:
“English ‘and’ does not allow conjoining of synonyms or near synonyms” –

That’s untrue — witness the common English expression “aches and pains,” or legal expressions such as “give and bequeath,” or “ordain and establish” (you may recognize the latter from the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States).

]]> By: Joel H. http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-411 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:25:52 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-411 Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve added “asyndeton” and “inclusive language,” along with some other terms that came up in defining those two.

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://goddidntsaythat.com/glossary/#comment-396 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:22 +0000 http://goddidntsaythat.com/?page_id=414#comment-396 The following term would be helpful for the glossary since it has become such a lightning rod in the past few years among people concerned about English Bible translations:

inclusive (or inclusive language)

I have a personal interest in Hebraic poetic parallelism and its implications for English translation. So in addition to your glossary term for Parallelism, I suggest also including

Asyndeton (or Appositive)

English “and” does not allow conjoining of synonyms or near synonyms whereas Hebrew waw does. Most English Bible translators are not aware of this and so readers of their translations miss the poetic synonymy. English *does* sanction Asyndeton (or apposition) for conjoining synonyms, including those in series for rhetorical or poetic emphasis.

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