The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Punctuation!!!
It makes a difference . . . Click the image to be taken to a larger view at the Pearls Before Swine Web page.
I'm told this was photoshopped, but I want to believe. https://pics.onsizzle.com/eat-rachael-ray-finds-inspiration-in-cooking-her-famil-and-21539642.png
We didn't always have these great things like punctuation and spaces. I have had fun sometimes in religious discussions online by explaining what the oldest Greek manuscripts of the New Testament were like--no lower-case letters (those didn't come in until after 700 AD), little punctuation, and no spaces between words. So in those old copies of the Bible, ITALLLOOKEDLIKETHISONLYGOINGONFORPAGESANDPAGES. I have a lot of respect for the scholars in the field of textual criticism who have studied those old manuscripts and worked things out. But the punctuation in our modern Bibles is the work of those textual scholars and the translators. Peter, as you have probably guessed by now, my original college degree was in Bible and theology. I made A's in NT Greek, and one of my professors worked on the original NIV Bible. But I do appreciate the work done to give us modern translations that are easier to read than the originals.
As a side note, I heard an interview of Lynne Truss, on the radio a few years ago, in which she said that she had written the book before she ever heard "the panda joke" that furnished the title.
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I'm told this was photoshopped, but I want to believe.
https://pics.onsizzle.com/eat-rachael-ray-finds-inspiration-in-cooking-her-famil-and-21539642.png
That they do... sigh... THAT THEY DO!
I highly recommend this amusing book. It will make you laugh. Have a glass of wine, or lemonade, with your wife and read it together.
Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language
https://www.amazon.com/Anguished-English-Anthology-Accidental-Assaults/dp/044020352X
We didn't always have these great things like punctuation and spaces. I have had fun sometimes in religious discussions online by explaining what the oldest Greek manuscripts of the New Testament were like--no lower-case letters (those didn't come in until after 700 AD), little punctuation, and no spaces between words. So in those old copies of the Bible, ITALLLOOKEDLIKETHISONLYGOINGONFORPAGESANDPAGES. I have a lot of respect for the scholars in the field of textual criticism who have studied those old manuscripts and worked things out. But the punctuation in our modern Bibles is the work of those textual scholars and the translators. Peter, as you have probably guessed by now, my original college degree was in Bible and theology. I made A's in NT Greek, and one of my professors worked on the original NIV Bible. But I do appreciate the work done to give us modern translations that are easier to read than the originals.
As a side note, I heard an interview of Lynne Truss, on the radio a few years ago, in which she said that she had written the book before she ever heard "the panda joke" that furnished the title.
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