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IME Bible translations fall somewhere on the spectrum of "word-for-word" (translate each word as literally as possible, even idioms, even though the overall meaning can get lost) and "thought-for-thought" (translate what you believe the meaning behind each phrase to be, even if you lose the nuance ...

Many have similar names because they're related. KJV > ASV (1901) ASV > RSV (1952) > NRSV (1989) > NAS (1971) > Living Bible (1971) > NLT (1986) > World English Bible (2000) KJV > NKJV (1982) The NIV (1978) is a new translation. On the Catholic side, the NAB (1970) > RNAB (1986, 91) > NABRE (2008)

I have often heard that, and especially that Japanese often drops words when implied by context. , although I have never understood how it works in practice . From my perspective, at least, it feels like every word I use serves some function and my sentences would hardly make sense if I dropped any...

I also have a Bible de Jerusalem, which was supposed to be really great, though I forget why. "De"? Is it in French? Yes. The French version was also translated into English as the Jerusalem Bible, which I understand was popular among Catholics for awhile. I also have the New Testament in Greek and...

Around the eighties, when I was more involved in this stuff, your translation was likely linked to your denomination and/or zealotry: fundamentalists - KJV only evangelicals - NIV if you preferred readability, NAS (New American Standard) if you wanted a more literal translation mainstream Protestant...

Thanks, Qwynegold. I missed the bit about the comma. I'd change the translation, then, to the much simpler "Unlike big sister, I hate boys and such." "Unlike you" might be better. (The speaker is 16, and responding to a comment from her sister that the boys at school think she's weird, so in English...

The sentence is あたしはおねーちゃんと違って男なんか、大っ嫌いなの。

The furigana for 大 is だい. I transliterated daik- to represent the っ.

Thanks, SHG, should be fixed. I increased the text size slightly all over. I'm not sure what's best for mobile— apparently the new hotness is "media queries", but I'm not comfortable with adding scripts I can't test. :P I did realize I can test on my iPad, and the bigger text looks nice there, but I...

Should be fixed, though Dreamhost is cacheing the main page or something, as I can't see the change live yet. Ha, no, I just forgot I have two separate domains. Uploaded to the right place now. :P Not enough Rifter articles. I only hope that whoever makes the first Rifter fursuit sends me pictures....

I can get eight. Any combinations of: (various topics) (on the talk show) vs. ...(remarks on the talk show) topics = (Donald Rumsfeld on Trump) and (Bush's remarks) vs. topic = Rumsfeld on (Trump-impact + Bush-remarks) (impact-of-Trump) and (Bush's remarks) vs. impact of (Trump and Bush)'s remarks

Maybe your mom, and mine. ;-) That criterion stopped working some point in the 90s. The first generation of e.g. Motörhead fans is now in their 60s, with lots of moms among them and probably quite a few grandmas. There even are Heavy Metal cruises... Fair point. Not only am I older than most of the...

Him, and the Buddhist sect/gang that he belonged to. Nor was it the only example of its kind. I think maybe you're looking at spiritual works and imagining that they reflect and determine secular politics. It's like reading Thomas à Kempis and concluding that Europe was full of nothing but ascetic, ...

You realize I just gave you an example of "emancipatory politics" in a premodern Buddhist society?

I'm talking about societies that honored or still honor Asian meditation traditions as the legitimate means to resolve personal issues. If the correct response to injustice is to meditate your cares away, then people seeking lasting social change are lowlife scum. Oh come now, that isn't even what ...

I'm not really a Music Guy, but maybe some impressionistic answers will be a start. A very general answer, of course, is "marketing". If you're submitting a song for the Grammys awards, you try if possible to pick the category where you think you'll win. To me, pop is lighter than rock. Or: it's roc...

I don't think it's like [ʃ] at all. You're probably thinking of the replacement of [ç] by [ʃ] in some dialects of German. My suggestion, based on Catford, is to pronounce and stop voicing. You should get a fricative (pretty much what people are saying with [hj]). Then raise your tongue very slightly...

Also I think it goes both ways: cousin once removed can be either the parent or child of a cousin. Yes; I didn't mention it simply because the question asked about children. But it's weird, isn't it? It makes me wonder why the system was devised, since for questions of law or genealogy I'd expect a...

Children of your cousins are, more technically, your "first cousins once removed".

Those kids, and your own kids, are "second cousins". (I.e. second cousins are people whose parents are first cousins.)

The direct link to the Almeopedia from your main page still takes you to the old version Should be fixed, though Dreamhost is cacheing the main page or something, as I can't see the change live yet. newest additions / updates on top Well, I guess a year is too granular. I've made it a month for now...

It works fine on Firefox on my Mac. I will have to download Firefox on the PC to see if there's any difference. There should be an error console on Firefox— on my machine it's Tools > Web Developer > Debugger. If it gives you a specific error message, that would be helpful. I don't know how NoScript...

Mornche, what browser and OS are you using?

English? (huge, human are pronounced yuge, yuman by some people.)

Thank you! Should be fixed.

Thank you, Hans-Werner! Should be corrected.

I added a "What's New" link to the front page.

I've basically redone the Almeopedia. You can find it here: http://www.almeopedia.com/almeo.html The problem with the Wiki version was speed. For a long time, it's been taking 40 seconds just to load a page. That made it almost impossible to consult, and extremely painful to modify. I've been on a k...