Congrats to me!

Wayne Leman wleman at mcn.net
Thu Feb 24 10:32:13 EST 2000


>
>> BTW, this is one of my soapboxes. I'm currently proofreading (yet)
another
>> new English Bible version and it is full of (yea, replete with, and there
is
>> even a plethora of) syntactic "transliterations" from Greek which do not
>
>Should that not be 'there ARE even a plethora of ...'?

You *are* so right, Jonathan. We Americans often get number agreement
confused with using borrowed Greek and Latin plurals. "The data clearly
shows..." vs. "The data clearly clear show..."  <g>

>
>'scuse my ignorance if otherwise, but I'm just feeling pedantic!

Well, thanks for being pedantic,
another of my soapboxes is accuracy and you caught a slip on my part,
Wayne




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