Fw: OUAI = "DAMN"?

Tolliver Family tolliver at tstar.net
Mon Sep 14 16:37:17 EDT 1998


I suspect that if the JS had been really interested in using "idiomatic"
English for "ouai", they might have used "TS", instead.  ;-)    But that
expression uses one of the "forbidden" words... in Greek class we always
translated kakos as "evil", but it can actually mean S.
ken 

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> From: Jane Harper <jharper at ix.netcom.com>
> I'm no fan of the JS, but my impression of the Scholars' Version is that
they
> are attempting to render the Greek into *idiomatic* English, as if we
were
> listening to Jesus preaching today.  When was the last time anybody heard
the
> words "woe to you" in conversational English? 



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