All the Word

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Index (GOLD-2010)

From Roger, who is using our software to produce Bible drafts:

This Thursday I had Pastor Dino and Loreta here so I decided to have them edit the first two chapters of Jonah with the ATW draft. Loreta knows the background of this but Dino hadn't gone through my briefing yet on what to expect. So I explained it all to him. At the end he said "But won't it take longer if we do it that way?" I said that I didn't think so but that it is just an experiment and we should just try it. About 2 minutes into Jonah he stopped and said " Who edited this chapter?" I said, "It came straight from the computer, although I spent time editing the grammar." He seemed surprised that it came from the computer and not from a native language drafter. A little later he said, "If it is like this, it will be much faster to do it this way!" They finished Jonah 1 in 54 minutes. Just before break they read their revised draft together and Dino said, "Wow, it is so natural!" After break they did Jonah 2 in 15 minutes. For the whole book, they averaged 2.88 minutes per verse.

The team became increasingly positive about the process as they went through the book. They see how using this source already in their own language can make the process easier and faster. They also see how their skills developed through years of translating the New Testament fit into this approach. Afterwards Pastor Dino said, "I really thought the other day when I saw the first chapter that it was a native language speaker who had drafted it."

I'm working with some young people in Colorado who were learning how to build our semantic representations, which is the source text for our Bible translations. See my video series at

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