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Goûter with Poppy
2–3 minutesLet me introduce you to Goûter. Goûter is our friend. We can’t get enough of Goûter. Goûter comes to visit every day around 4pm ish. We usually take Goûter to the park and share a nice cup of hot chocolate from a flask. But often we just stay at home with Goûter. Goûter is always different. Somtimes sweet and sometimes salty but always yummy 🙂 No Goûter isn’t a new pet. Goûter is actually the word used for ‘an afternoon snack’. When kids get out of school they typically go straight to a nearby park or head home. Around 4pm…
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Acquiring Lexica – Your Input Appreciated
1–2 minutesIt’s time that I finally buy Greek and Hebrew lexica. I’m therefore currently trying to work out the best way to go about adding BDAG and HALOT to my library, whether physically or digitally. I’d love your input. At the moment, I’m most seriously considering digital versions given my somewhat transient life–currently living in France, but about to move to Africa in the new year. Additionally, I love the Logos app for my Android smartphone and wouldn’t be surprised if purchasing their biblical language set of BDAG and HALOT integrated perfectly into the app. On the other hand, I’m not…
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So Much in this Way
2–3 minutesSorry for the nonsense title of this post. You’ll understand why shortly. Now on to the subject at hand. Have you seen the latest video from Wycliffe USA called “Translating for Understanding”? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kPwHq7pxY] You can easily understand why the creators of the video chose such a well-known verse as the example passage to be translated. I often employ John 3:16 as well when I’m speaking on Bible translation. but for different reasons. Yes, the verse is well-known, but the translation issues involved in translating John 3:16 are not. First, a comparison of English translations shows the different ways in…
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Poppy’s First Day at French Pre-School
4–6 minutesThis post is over a month late, shame on me. The photos have been sitting on my desktop collecting dust. Actually, I was waiting to find some photos I had taken of Poppy’s last day at the daycare she had been going to. I was going to do a nice transition from one stage in her life to the next. But when there are roughly six SD cards floating around and you can’t remember which one was in the camera at the time, you kinda wonder whether it’s worth waiting for. Yes, it darn well is waiting for. But alas,…