From bad1cb96fe9d8a005117f468992aa7aa279f3aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:16:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 71 writing-newevents --- translate/writing-newevent/01.md | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/translate/writing-newevent/01.md b/translate/writing-newevent/01.md index b84006c..193d6d6 100644 --- a/translate/writing-newevent/01.md +++ b/translate/writing-newevent/01.md @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ The underlined phrase above shows that the events concerning the learned men hap The author first introduces a new person and then tells about what he did and when he did it. In some languages it might be more natural to tell about the time first. ->Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood. (Genesis 7:6-7 ULB) +6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood. (Genesis 7:6-7 ULB) -Verse 6 is a summary of the events that happen in the rest of chapter 7. Verse 6 is not one of the events of the story. The people went into the ship before the flood came. Some languages might need to make it clear that this verse simply introduces the event, or move this verse after verse 7. +The underlined phase in verse 6 is a summary of the events that happen in the rest of chapter 7. It is not one of the events of the story. Noah and his family went into the ship before the flood came. Some languages might need to make it clear that verse 6 simply introduces the event, or move the information about the flood coming until after the information about the people going into the ship. ### Translation Strategies @@ -58,11 +58,12 @@ If the information given at the beginning of a new event is clear and natural to * Jesus went to the lake and began to teach people again there. 1. If the introduction is a summary of the whole event, use your language's way of showing that it is a summary. - * **Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.** (Genesis 7:6 ULB) - * Now this is what happened when Noah was six hundred years old and the flood came upon the earth. - * This part tells about what happened when the flood came upon the earth. These things happened when Noah was six hundred years old. + * **6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.**(Genesis 7:6 ULB) + * 7Now this is what happened when Noah was six hundred years old and the flood came upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood. + * 6This part tells about what happened when Noah was six hundred years old and the flood came upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood. 1. If it would be strange in the target language to give a summary of the event at the beginning, show that the event would actually happen later in the story. - * **Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.** (Genesis 7:6-7 ULB) - * Now this is what happened when Noah was six hundred years old. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because God had said that the waters of the flood would come. + * 6**Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.** (Genesis 7:6-7 ULB) + * 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood was about to come upon the earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood that would come. + * 6-7Noah was six hundred years old when he, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because the waters of the flood were about to come.