Professor Scratch,But now we've got Agosh claiming that the money is getting sunk into typesetting? Really?
Just making sure you didn't miss this tidbit from Agosh...
"..has gone to costs of typesetting (Skousen's brother)"
Professor Scratch,But now we've got Agosh claiming that the money is getting sunk into typesetting? Really?
I *did* see that, Dean Robbers--thank you. I think it just underscores my basic point, which is that you can read this in basically one of two ways. Either it is a moneymaking scheme (they pay Skousen's brother, and then he re-distributes the money, I guess?), *or* they really do think they are paying for something worthwhile (maybe Skousen's brother is hand-stitching the bindings for each book?) and are pouring craploads of money into something silly.
It's a pure nonsense utterance, and one that nobody had ever heard before Chomsky made it a famous quotation, yet every native speaker of English knows immediately that it is well-formed grammatically. The unconscious nature of native grammar is indeed the foundation of modern linguistics. Lots of quantitative experimental studies show that non-native speakers who learned a language past a certain critical age never attain the speed and accuracy of grammatical judgement that true native speakers all seem to have hard-wired, even if these non-native speakers are so fluent that nobody can tell their normal speech from native speech. Even if the later learners never make errors themselves, they don't recognize subtle errors as quickly and surely as native-speaker children.Noam Chomsky wrote:Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Regarding Skousen’s brother, there was this in notes from the JSP press conference:Doctor Scratch wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 9:45 pmI *did* see that, Dean Robbers--thank you. I think it just underscores my basic point, which is that you can read this in basically one of two ways. Either it is a moneymaking scheme (they pay Skousen's brother, and then he re-distributes the money, I guess?), *or* they really do think they are paying for something worthwhile (maybe Skousen's brother is hand-stitching the bindings for each book?) and are pouring craploads of money into something silly.
The “slightly different goals” sounds like a polite euphemism, doesn’t it? Maybe the Community of Christ is paying Skousen, through the Interpreter.
In 1988, Richard Howard received permission from RLDS leaders to allow Royal Skousen access to the printer’s manuscript and for Nevin Skousen (Royal’s brother) to photograph the manuscript in color. In closing, she noted the Community of Christ commitment to solid history that assists in their “identity formation.”
... Robin Jensen (co-editor of this volume) discussed the slightly different goals of the current edition of the printer’s manuscript and Royal Skousen’s critical text project, noting that Skousen’s edition was focused on producing a text while the JSP treatment is in the vein of documentary editing. As such, the latter is a bit more conservative and will represent more characters with a diamond shape indicating the editors are unsure what letter was intended.
https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/notes-fr ... rs-volume/
President Robin Linkhart, Community of Christ President of Seventy and Missionary Coordinator for the western US. On behalf of the Community of Christ, she expressed “deep appreciation for your acknowledgment of our role in the Joseph Smith Papers Project.” Referring to the forthcoming online publication of images of the printer’s manuscript, she noted that this will “graciously afford for study without barrier to anyone.”