Comments on: Monthly Gleanings: November 2010 http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/nov-2010/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/nov-2010/#comment-192401 mollymooly Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:46:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12574#comment-192401 "What matters is original ideas" and "What matter are original ideas" are both alternatives to "What matters are original ideas". “What matters is original ideas” and “What matter are original ideas” are both alternatives to “What matters are original ideas”.

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]]> By: Chaka http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/nov-2010/#comment-192314 Chaka Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:44:10 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12574#comment-192314 The word that immediately comes to mind for "food containing capsaicin" is "picante." Unfortunately, it's not an English word. We do have "piquant," though. It sounds a shade more delicate than I'd like, but I'd prefer it to "pungent." The word that immediately comes to mind for “food containing capsaicin” is “picante.” Unfortunately, it’s not an English word. We do have “piquant,” though. It sounds a shade more delicate than I’d like, but I’d prefer it to “pungent.”

]]> By: John McIntyre http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/nov-2010/#comment-192307 John McIntyre Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:17:42 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12574#comment-192307 So the translators of the Authorized Version were incompetent when they translated Isaiah as "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light"? "That" hasn't been "encroaching"; it has been an acceptable alternative to "who" for centuries, particularly when the reference is to a group of people, as in Isaiah, or to an unknown person, as in "The Girl That I Marry" from "Annie Get Your Gun." So the translators of the Authorized Version were incompetent when they translated Isaiah as “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light”?

“That” hasn’t been “encroaching”; it has been an acceptable alternative to “who” for centuries, particularly when the reference is to a group of people, as in Isaiah, or to an unknown person, as in “The Girl That I Marry” from “Annie Get Your Gun.”

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