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DIED. Bruce Metzger, 93, eminent New Testament scholar who oversaw the 1989 publication of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the touchstone for those on the liberal side of the biblical-text wars; in Princeton, N.J. A graceful linguist and world authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek, he aimed to create a more modern, accessible text. Among its revisions: gender-neutral language, the elimination of thees and thous, and syntactical shifts to avoid confusion in meaning. A sentence that Metzger's team edited as "Once I received a stoning," for example, had previously read...
Winning the contract may be the easy part for GLS. Luring interpreters to Iraq is another story. Job listings posted on L-3's website read like something out of a Tom Clancy thriller. Wanted: "Arabic Linguist ... Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace ... Must be able to live in a harsh environment." The pay isn't mentioned, but L-3 recently offered interpreters more than $175,000 annually to work in Iraq. Linguists usually don't carry weapons and are often called on to participate in raids and other combat-related tasks. Casualty reports show that...
...years. Quick, try to log onto the old website, i-aa.org. That’s right, dead. And it’s not just us, either—officials are hoping to refer to our cousins in I-A as the Football Bowl Subdivision.I’m not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination, but you’ve got to be kidding me.I laughed at these names when they were announced before the year began. Nobody took this stuff seriously, and we all kept on along with our “big brother?...
...Setting the Record Straight • Lost in Translation An Oct. 2 story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez incorrectly stated that he thought linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky was dead, an allusion to mistranslated remarks Chávez made at a news conference. What Chávez said was, "I am an avid reader of Noam Chomsky, as I am of an American professor who died some time ago." Later Chávez identified the professor as Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died in April...
...pollster, my job is to tap the public mood. As a linguist, my efforts are focused on the words of the electorate and how best to communicate a set of priorities and principles. For the past three months, in focus groups literally from coast to coast - and a dozen states in between - I have heard the constant grumblings of Republicans that their party didn't do enough to follow through on their promises and the anger of Democrats who felt the G.O.P. went too far. Damned if you do. Damned...