On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 10:21, Carl W. Conrad wrote: > As I feared when the question appeared, respondents aren't willing to limit > responses to the question but are using the forum to express views on a > matter that belongs rather to the B-Translation list. Could we please > confine responses to the question itself? > Speaking as one of the moderators for the Bible Translation list, let me first voice agreement with Carl and say that certain aspects of the discussion are more appropriate for BTrans than for BGreek. However, the voicing of what motivates the choice of gender in translation (I'm thinking specifically of feminist or chauvinist ideology) is not appropriate for either list. There are socio-linguistic considerations as well as cultural issues--as they relate to translation--which need discussion. Considerations which are in both the original text and time as well as today. Questions like: "When the original writer used ADELFOI, what meaning was triggered in the hearer's minds?" And "what are the various factors which need to be considered in order to accurately translate ADELFOI?" Those type of discussions are valuable and BTrans is a good place for that. We've had that discussion, actually . And will probably have it again. There's a number of issues, and none of them have to do with ideology. Thank you. BTrans Co-moderator -- Mike Sangrey msangrey@BlueFeltHat.org Landisburg, Pa. "The first one last wins." "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth." --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu