American English Standards Manual, 9/98 ¡leaked!

by hildebrando 9 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  hildebrando

  "The rules and principles of the Standards Manual are applied to English text so that the English publications of the Watch Tower Society have a consistent style.

  The Standards Manual does not set standards for languages other than English. Each language has its own principles and characteristics to which to conform. See Branch Organization for the function of the English Manual with respect to other languages.

  Legitimate exceptions to principles of the Standards Manual may be appropriate for somefeature of text that has specialized content or purpose. The policy of override has been established toaccommodate such situations.

  Brothers with authority to override Manual guidelines may adjust text in a way that the Manual may not specifically cover. This allows special situations to be appropriately handled.Text is conformed to the Standards Manual unless an override specifically directs otherwise."

  Full Text:http://hildeydesa.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-english-standards-manual-998.html
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  St George of England

  But they still can't produce a Bible, or in fact any literature in REAL ENGLISH, i.e. the English as used in the UK.

  We still have to put up with US spelling! No wonder JW kids cannot spell.

  George
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  Apognophos

  Wow, thanks. I've wanted to see this for a long time. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to download it?
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  disfellowshipped1

  Standards Manual for Proofreaders (American English)
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  Dis-Member

  I'll have the pdf shortly..
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  Phizzy

  ST George, yea them yanks should learn to speak proper like wot we does.
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  tim hooper

  Yeah - organized is organised, specialized is specialised! But the USA is correct in it's spelling of "color". It was only in the 18th Century that we turned it to "colour" as part of a French fashion fad.
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  Dis-Member

  Easy to read link..
  
  https://www.scribd.com/embeds/230761396/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-dhOCvkDoWxSdqwOlnZ4A&show_recomm
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  HowTheBibleWasCreated

  This is sad the WT stoops this low in translation

  Every text MUST be prepared in english. This means:

  If i'm in India and speak Punjabi and get a NWT (Not sure if it's in that langauge yet) it would be translated from english and NOT from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Does this sound like good translation?

  Ex:

  I want to read Illiad (Homer). I'm in China and by a chinese copy. However it have been translated from an english version. This means it's two translations away from the orginal classical Greek.
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  smiddy

  Since when did English ( the American ) version replace Hebrew , the language GOD gave to Adam ?

  JW`s like to harp on how close they are to first century christians in their worship , where was the English language then .?

  smiddy