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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1325 on: January 03, 2014, 02:48:11 PM »
I would be surprised if most members did not know how to use "wax" in a sentence that way.

Maybe that person is an outlier?

You're probably right. After all "were waxed" occurs not once in the LDS standard works, so it's not like the person who wrote that picked up the phrase without understanding it. They somehow made that up themselves.
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I think it would be an interesting study though to review by age groups how well Mormons of different age groups comprehend King James English.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1326 on: January 04, 2014, 11:54:31 AM »
Probably similar to their comprehension of Shakespearean English. 
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1327 on: January 04, 2014, 12:17:19 PM »
In my experience King James English slightly misused is a pretty reliable "tell" for Mormonism.*

*By which I mean that all the people I know who do that are Mormons, not that all the Mormons I know do that. When I hear it, I assume that the person is probably Mormon.  And so far I've always been right. (Not that it's a huge sample.)


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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1328 on: January 04, 2014, 02:46:50 PM »
Interesting. Do people from other churches and congregations use it better? Or do they just not use it?
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1329 on: January 04, 2014, 03:55:53 PM »
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waxed in pride.

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1330 on: January 04, 2014, 03:56:50 PM »
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1331 on: January 04, 2014, 03:59:02 PM »
What's my prize?
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1332 on: January 04, 2014, 04:05:04 PM »
Interesting. Do people from other churches and congregations use it better? Or do they just not use it?

Don't use it, except for direct quotes.  

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1333 on: January 04, 2014, 09:41:07 PM »
Maybe they are directly quoting, but it's not the Bible? 
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1334 on: January 23, 2014, 07:31:01 AM »
"my team...are diligently waged to determine solutions".
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1335 on: January 23, 2014, 07:42:16 AM »
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1336 on: January 23, 2014, 08:20:45 AM »
Quickly, if we get enough people to start saying that we can make it standard!
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1337 on: January 23, 2014, 10:51:16 AM »
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1338 on: February 04, 2014, 09:10:06 AM »
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Remembering its location can help you show others in their Bibles where to locate this important doctrine about marriage.

Ugh. Who writes this stuff? It's just so clunky.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1339 on: February 04, 2014, 09:24:44 AM »
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One principle can we learn from these verses about how we should treat the Sabbath day is the following

This sounds like something Perd Hapley would write.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1340 on: February 04, 2014, 09:30:15 AM »
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Remembering its location can help you show others in their Bibles where to locate this important doctrine about marriage.

Ugh. Who writes this stuff? It's just so clunky.

But it's true!  We keep our Bibles in the bookcase.  It's hard to show people stuff in the Bible if you can't remember where you left it.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1341 on: February 04, 2014, 03:38:00 PM »
I thought the others were in the bibles, so presumably they know where they are?
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1342 on: February 06, 2014, 06:23:49 PM »
I don't see how that follows.  They may have been lost.

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1343 on: February 25, 2014, 01:18:56 PM »
An author just changed "Display a candy bar or other treat" to "Display a delicious treat". I don't know why it's making me crack up so much.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1344 on: February 25, 2014, 02:45:46 PM »
Is this the strategy where you throw candy at people who participate in discussion to encourage participation?

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1345 on: February 25, 2014, 02:53:06 PM »
Worse. Show the kids a treat and ask who wants it. Pick two of them, divide the treat unequally, and ask them to decide who gets which piece. Then, without addressing or resolving the possible conflict you probably just caused, read about how Abraham and Lot argued about where to live and how they resolved their problem.
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1346 on: February 25, 2014, 02:55:46 PM »
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1347 on: February 25, 2014, 03:12:31 PM »
And when the other editor and I pointed out the potential problems, including unnecessary conflict, lack of resolution, and lack of a real segue or connection to the lesson, we were told to leave it. No explanation given.

This is how about half of my job is. :\
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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1348 on: February 25, 2014, 03:17:26 PM »
I imagine that's one of the frustrating parts of an editor's job -- you get to fix the language but not the content.

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Re: Quotes from work
« Reply #1349 on: February 25, 2014, 03:33:03 PM »
It really varies from job to job. We're supposed to make sure that the doctrine is presented accurately, that the scriptures are being interpreted appropriately, and that the methodology is sound. But when it comes down to it, we have no power to do so. I mean, we can talk to them and try to persuade them, but if they say "We want it this way. Leave it", there's really nothing we can do.
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