tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11875966.post5047329026774047444..comments2023-10-20T07:28:50.948-07:00Comments on Better Bibles Blog: Is bitter beer for better Bibles?Wayne Lemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024771201561767893noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11875966.post-8429405591905324342007-10-03T14:43:00.000-07:002007-10-03T14:43:00.000-07:00Not sure if it's a dialect issue, it's more that s...Not sure if it's a dialect issue, it's more that some English speakers have poor taste in beer!<BR/><BR/>It may not help, of course, that many American Bible translators (not so many British ones probably) are abstainers and so have no taste in beer at all. Should I suggest that people who translate passages about alcoholic drink should have personal experience of what they are translating? Well, maybe not, for I'm sure we shouldn't apply the same principle to, for example, adultery.Peter Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13395635409427347613noreply@blogger.com