Technology and Grammar

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 16 13:04:59 EDT 2002


Glendon:

You wrote:

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>It also seems to me that this discussion is reminiscent of
>the effect of Gutenberg and the printing press on interpretation of the
>Greek text.
>As much as I love to read printed and typeset sources, I can't help
>wondering if I need to go back to
>the original tablets if I want to be able to make any significant
>contribution to the work.
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The computer is not designed to think; that will always remain
our job. I think Dan Wallace employed the right use of computer
technology to gather information, but ultimately, he had to
look at and understand what was before him. But if he had to
research all that he did before he published GGBB, he would still
be working on chapter 1.

Like the example of reading the entire LXX to see every occurrence
of EN. A computer can give you every occurrence in 4.2 seconds. And
the best part, you wont have to read an entire chapter only to
find out that there was no EN used.

Mark Wilson


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