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To: Ridin' Shotgun
What? Its taken them all this time and they still can't get it right? Not verbatim?

Lighten up. It's nearly impossible to get a perfect, verbatim translation of just about any lengthy foreign speech or writing. There are connotations, shades of meaning and words that don't carry in the other language. We've had centuries to translate the Bible, and still don't have a perfect version.

53 posted on 12/13/2001 8:02:18 AM PST by Sloth
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To: Sloth
We've had centuries to translate the Bible, and still don't have a perfect version.

So right. But millions of people still believe it implicitly, word for word.

61 posted on 12/13/2001 8:04:43 AM PST by Ridin' Shotgun
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