Chris (and Brandon),
Thanks for pointing out that the printed texts are published with
lowercase pronouns. This mandates that we publish our module this way,
as well.
Chris,
I've ignored the rest of your message ;)
-Troy.
Chris Little wrote:
Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
OT: It personally frustrates me that the body of the text we use
for the KJV OT has lowercased all personal pronouns for God. Can we
find a better text? I'm fairly certain the KJV in most of its printed
incarnations had these uppercase.
Please don't change this. Pronouns referring to God in the KJV use
lowercase. They did in the 1611. They did in the 1769. Anything that
deviates from this is edited.
The whole practice of capitalizing pronouns referring to God is a stupid
modern attempt at hyper-orthodoxy. Very simply put: pronouns are never
capitalized in modern English unless they come at the start of a
sentence or are title-cased. And the irony is that the same people who
would WANT to modify a text to capitalize such pronouns are likely often
also people who would decry similar modification of a text to be gender
neutral where source texts/other translations use masculine.
It's a silly, bad, evil, yucky, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad practice.
--Chris
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