tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20277527.post5845451113209666226..comments2023-07-28T07:13:03.542-05:00Comments on BIBLIA THEOLOGICA: Get Ready, Bible Translators, to be Suedabcanedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13671418539630398806noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20277527.post-33503600136848362672008-07-23T17:11:00.000-05:002008-07-23T17:11:00.000-05:00What strikes me in this case, is the last part of ...What strikes me in this case, is the last part of this quote: <BR/><BR/>"He told the Grand Rapids TV station in an interview he wants to "compensate for the past 20 years of emotional duress and mental instability."<BR/><BR/>Mental instability...you think?Matthew D. Montoninihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16771037323124064875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20277527.post-50879968123598399982008-07-11T13:40:00.000-05:002008-07-11T13:40:00.000-05:00Why eschew obfuscation and espouse elucidation whe...Why eschew obfuscation and espouse elucidation when obfuscation nurtures feelings of elitism and superior intellectual capacity?abcanedayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671418539630398806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20277527.post-51714674618616482462008-07-10T14:57:00.000-05:002008-07-10T14:57:00.000-05:00I suppose this was inevitable.On a side note, why ...I suppose this was inevitable.<BR/><BR/>On a side note, why do people write a sentence like this:<BR/><BR/>"U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused Monday to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims.""<BR/><BR/>All these AP types write this way and every time I wonder why these writers make their readers go through grammatical gymnastics to understand what they are writing.<BR/><BR/>Wouldn't this be so much better:<BR/><BR/>On Monday, U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims."<BR/><BR/>or even this:<BR/><BR/>On Monday U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. said the court, "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims," and refused to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case."<BR/><BR/>I could keep going, but I would never come up with the sentence the WorldNetDaily write came up with!Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616807366341767951noreply@blogger.com