[B-Greek] interlinears
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Tue Dec 19 16:50:10 EST 2006
Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Jim West wrote:
>
>> Interlinears will cripple you.
>
> It would appear that SIL does not agree. They make extensive use of
> interlinear text with parsing included in thier publications for
> translators. I find this annoying and would rather see the Greek and
> Hebrew presented alone but the target audience for these publications
> includes people who have little or now background in the ancient
> languages.
>
What are people doing translating biblical texts if they have no
familiarity with biblical languages? And why would such be encouraged
by an organization devoted to linguistics?
The "translators" you mention aren't translating at all, they are
producing paraphrases of biblical texts from their own language.
best
Jim
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