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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Intelligible English Translation of plural YOU in KOINE.
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:20:42 -0700


> If you used "y o u" to show plural, what about the fact that word
> processors would cause the word to be separated and carriaged if at the end
> of a line? Something should be invented that would be coherent within
> itself, for the sake of word processing. As Dave said, maybe YOU (in caps)
> like the NWT would word better. Then, would it be suggested that this be
> consistently utilized or only in contexts of necesary clarification?

There's always the good old slang (gutter) English "youse" ;-)

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis




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