Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>]

Actually, I don't think that "sojourner" is necessarily all that
obsolete, considering that its basic root noun "sojourn" is only a
little bit literary, or belonging to a slightly out-of-date
journalistic jargon, and so is not fully archaic -- in fact, "sojourn"
is exactly the kind of word that writers for Time magazine a few
decades back would have sprinkled in their prose to lend an air of
distinction.

Anyway, quite as important as achieving a smooth English style in
translation is avoiding a dangerous pseudo-clarity which results from
using words that have specific connotations which encourage readers to
assume things which are not necessarily implied by (or even compatible
with) the original text.  This can sometimes lead to difficult
decisions.

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Henry Churchyard   churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu   http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/