Gervin Posted April 20, 2019 Posted April 20, 2019 On 4/13/2019 at 12:22 PM, SeekingUnderstanding said: Of the Book of Mormon text that has been examined, what percentage of the grammarical syntax is Early Modern English? Start with the percentage of the Book of Mormon that is verbatim KJV, and work up.
SeekingUnderstanding Posted April 20, 2019 Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Gervin said: Start with the percentage of the Book of Mormon that is verbatim KJV, and work up. Obviously, the copied KJV portion would need to be excluded. If the entire text was EModE, then maybe the whole theory would make a bit more sense. But since it appears that we have some EModE interspersed with modern English, it really puts a huge damper on the whole idea of a EModE translation. Especially since we have no idea what Joseph's spoken dialect looked like. Edited April 20, 2019 by SeekingUnderstanding
Gervin Posted April 21, 2019 Posted April 21, 2019 10 hours ago, SeekingUnderstanding said: Obviously, the copied KJV portion would need to be excluded. Copied? I don't think so.
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