Language

Translation: Problems and Potential

Written for Woody, Loraine and Jolly Besse เพื่อนและที่ปรึกษากว่าหลายปี   Across the seven major languages in this world, common words such as “people”, “individual”, “man”, “nation”, “law”, “faith”, and “family’ had differing levels of importance in relation to other words in the language. While in Arabic the word “man” exhibited high levels of importance in the …

Computer and electronic translations: how accurate are they?

Index     I. Introduction    II. Antithesis   III. Testing the thesis   IV. Investigation and research    V. Thesis   VI. Addressing the problem of Tradumatica  VII. Direction and focus VIII. Summary   IX. Recommendations    X. Bibliography   XI. Web links annotated  XII. End Notes I.  Introduction I was reading a student essay in the eighth cycle at a university in Perú …

Crimes Against Humanity in the Name of Christ: Call for Genocide by Scott Lively and Paul Cameron: How Bad Translations Lead to Hate, Violence, Murder

© 2013 Arthur Frederick Ide. Contents I. Abstract II. Background III. Introduction IV. Antecedents V. Anticedents VI. Precursory Thesis VII. Education in the Balance: All Schools are not Alike VIII. Lively’s War against LGBTI and Human Rights IX. Mistranslations, Misinterpretations and Misreadings to Suppress Human Rights X. Incest is a Family Affairs: How Sex is …

Writing an interesting academic thesis

  Contents I. Introduction to this essay II. Abstract III. Encyclopedic Theses IV. Narrowing the Research Topic V. Narrowing the Question VI. Critical Reading VII. Critical Writing VIII. Succinct Academic Writing IX. Attracting the Reader’s Attention X. Critical Composition XI. Paragraphs in Composition XII. Correlative Paragraphs XIII. Connections, Conjunctions, and Transitions XIV. Clarity of Expression …

Psychology of Saul/St. Paul – A Study of Linguistics, Translation, Interpretation and Biblical Study

Saul of Tarsus claims that he met Jesus of the New Testament in a “blinding light” (a theophany), yet those around him neither heard nor saw anything. Most psychologists define this incident as a seizure. There was more than a physical seizure, but a psychological reworking of the New Testament to contain not the message of peace, but one of war, hate, and division.

Viki Knox: a Study of Ignorance and Hatred

Viki Knox publicly ranted against LGBT, ordering select clothing not to be worn, and declaring her interpretation of the rules of life to be superior to others. Was it free speech protected by the First Amendment, or a hate crime based on irrational passion denying similar freedoms that Knox enjoys from other people she does not accept? What is the extent of bullying, especially in a state that has a strong anti-bullying, anti-discrimination law on the books?

“Be fruitful and multiply”–how mistranslations lead to errors in interpretation

More crimes of violence and hatred are committed because of religion and mistranslations and errors in interpretation than for any other reason. Errors in the Bible must be exposed to understand Christian-Muslim hatred for each other and the wars of religion from the earliest times to the promised Armageddon of the New Apostolic Reformation that has anointed Rick Perry of Texas to sit on the left-hand of its god.

John of Patmos and the Final Battle: conspiracy and mental illness

John of Patmos is said to be the author of Revelation: the book of the End of Time. Many argue that he wrote it from having two dreams: a worldwide war, and the end of the world. It is not a unique story, nor are the characters within it from the Beast with seven heads (the goddess Tiamat) to the horsemen. This essay fleshes out the original essay on the Apocalypse: a nightmare, and looks closely at mistranslations that have occurred since the second century with every cult wanting its own Bible to defend its position, as with Jehovah’s Witnesses to suicide cults: Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and others. The real question is: was John of Patmos Island sane?