The Importance of Slang in the Bible

Not everyone can read ancient Greek or Hebrew. I worked on a translation of the book of Mormon into modern Greek up until January when I left my job. There's an addition of the, there's a translation in an earlier version of modern Greek called Katharévousa. That is only 60, 70 years old. And a lot of people struggle with Katharévettea with reading that. So yeah, this is something that all languages of all of all languages change more rapidly than most people realize.

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