As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“On a regular basis, I catch King-James-Onlyists acknowledging my point…. Such is our story today, my friends—a story which begins on the blog of leading King-James-Onlyist, Kent Brandenburg.” - Mark Ward
“ ‘Is the English language decaying? Was it once in a pristine state? Has it been sliding ever since?’ I was relieved to see Garner say ‘No, on all counts.’” - Mark Ward
“A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.” - Wired
“please allow the normal, everyday use of literature (like my appeal to the story of the maniac) to take a central place in biblical hermeneutics before grasping at secret readings….That’s how God intends language to work.” - Mark Snoeberger
“…in our day everything is political and that all of society’s structures and institutions are being made subservient to political ends. …Second, it affirms that in our society self-definition is considered unassailable so that a person’s individual defining of a word must reign over a dictionary’s.” - Challies
“Let me explain briefly why language change is actually a good thing for Christians who love God and his word.” - Mark Ward
“Imagine a software engineering class that doesn’t make students learn computer code. That should give you some idea how ridiculous it is that Princeton University is no longer requiring classics majors to learn Greek or Latin. Not zoology students or English majors, but classics students. You know, the folks who study Greek and Latin culture.” - Breakpoint
More than ever before we need to see cross-cultural missions as advancing the Gospel among peoples and language groups, not merely reaching those within certain political boundaries. This distinction is becoming increasingly important as our world grows integrated through a global economy and technology. Peoples and languages, not countries—this is what I would like to emphasize.
“After a petition gained more than 34,000 signatures, Oxford University Press … either removed or labelled certain synonyms as ‘offensive, derogatory, or dated.’ Some of those terms are indeed offensive and vulgar, but they didn’t stop there.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the recent civil unrest in America for me, has been trying to figure out what people mean by what they say. Am I at fault for failing to understand the plain meaning of simple words, or are the words themselves intended to obscure the real intentions of the speaker?
I am beginning to suspect it’s the latter. It seems that words are being used in a manner intended to hide, not reveal what the speaker actually means.
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