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Agreed! While I agree with the ideaology behind NWT translators decisions
here I am adamantly against their conclusions and choice of words with
which to translate them consistently. ...
NWT has arrived at these 'plastic' translations not their use of consistency
but throught their failure to understand that the basic unit of translation
was not the individual word itself but the unique and repeating combinations
of words which convey the same underlying concepts which we find in every single
language either living or dead.
I am fully confident that had the NWT translation team taken this into account
they would have produced a far more warming translation which fulfilled the
goals of both consistency and of faithful natural speech. ...
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Also as the word soul in English means 'immortal immaterial part of a person
which survives the death of the body' this was a very poor choice in a translation
whose aim is to demonstrate that such was not the biblical meaning. Althoug, I
have to admit that I struggle to find a single English word which captures the
concept which the combination of all its uses conveys.
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