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by Jon Christensen
August 4th, 2011, 4:26 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship

Pardon my interrupting the discussion about Chinese writing. I'm the other person in the discussion about the use of αδελφος in Gal 1:19, so I thought I might be given the opportunity to present my views. No need to apologize. I'm sorry for the "brief" interlude -- though I should make it...
by Jon Christensen
July 31st, 2011, 11:52 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Jonathan Burke

Try reading 三字經 , a 13th century classical text which is simple enough to be used to teach school children history and moral principles, but which required considerable literary skill to compose in order to achieve the aim of the work whilst keeping within the strict circumference of the demanding ...
by Jon Christensen
July 31st, 2011, 8:41 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR
Replies: 3
Views: 1092

Re: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR

Michael Christensen wrote:why do the two statements appear in reversed order in the TR?
Of course, I meant questions -- but rhetorical questions can seem like statements, I guess.
by Jon Christensen
July 31st, 2011, 7:18 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR
Replies: 3
Views: 1092

Re: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR

Another question that would interest me is: why do the two statements appear in reversed order in the TR?
by Jon Christensen
July 31st, 2011, 6:42 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR
Replies: 3
Views: 1092

Re: 1 Cor 15:55 NA26 VS TR

Could it be that the two textual variants are due to two different translations of the Hebrew words מָוֶת and שְׁאוֹל in the passage quoted from Hos 13:14 -- in one case translating them both using the same Greek word, in the other case using two different words?
by Jon Christensen
July 31st, 2011, 4:45 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship

Actually, if you take a look at the three following links, you might see that Chinese writing isn't nearly as complicated and difficult to learn as most people tend to think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character#Formation_of_characters http://readchinese.nflc.org/?page=home http://zhongwen...
by Jon Christensen
July 29th, 2011, 1:27 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship

2) China doesn't seems to be doing quite well in respect to literacy rates at the moment (and historically, some centuries ago, it was even better than Europe!) – which suggests that the problem of illiteracy earlier in the 20th century was due to political and economical causes rather than the wri...
by Jon Christensen
July 29th, 2011, 5:29 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship

1) So somebody tried to implement a phonetic system in the 1920's. However, it still hasn't caught on, so most likely the disadvantages of the system outweighed the benefits. 2) China doesn't seems to be doing quite well in respect to literacy rates at the moment (and historically, some centuries ag...
by Jon Christensen
July 28th, 2011, 8:07 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Jonathan Burke

But I fear we have strayed considerably offtopic. Perhaps there's a place for this discussion elsewhere on the forum. I fear so too. There are a few things I might like to comment on, but I'd rather wait until we find a more appropriate place. However, I can't resist stating the following three bri...
by Jon Christensen
July 28th, 2011, 9:38 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Differentiating fictive and biological kinship
Replies: 44
Views: 14942

Re: Jonathan Burke

Yes indeed they are very different to English. Looking at language from a practically oriented communication point of view (which is a product of having to use a foreign language to actually communicate with other human beings, instead of studying a text), I find case based languages incredibly ine...

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