Comments on: I double-, no, triple-dog dare you! http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you A personal walk in a wilderness of words Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/#comment-3610 ElShaddai Edwards Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:25:29 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1188#comment-3610 Thanks, Peter. Certainly the examples of "double-dyed" I found were earlier than those of "triple-dyed", so a "hyperbolic extension" certainly could be likely. @Kevin - good catch on the NAB and NJB! I'll be curious to see if the new ESV w/Apocrypha contains a full translation of the Greek Esther. I assume so given that the translators are likely working from the RSV Apocrypha as a starting point, but that's never been confirmed. Anyone have a KJV Apocrypha to check the rendering there? Thanks, Peter. Certainly the examples of “double-dyed” I found were earlier than those of “triple-dyed”, so a “hyperbolic extension” certainly could be likely.

@Kevin – good catch on the NAB and NJB!

I’ll be curious to see if the new ESV w/Apocrypha contains a full translation of the Greek Esther. I assume so given that the translators are likely working from the RSV Apocrypha as a starting point, but that’s never been confirmed. Anyone have a KJV Apocrypha to check the rendering there?

]]> By: Peter Kirk http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/#comment-3608 Peter Kirk Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:48:44 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1188#comment-3608 My instinct would be that "double-dyed" is a regular idiom, one which is in the back of my mind although old-fashioned now; whereas "triple-dyed" sounds to me like a new coinage (although in fact it isn't) as a hyperbolic extension of "double-dyed". My instinct would be that “double-dyed” is a regular idiom, one which is in the back of my mind although old-fashioned now; whereas “triple-dyed” sounds to me like a new coinage (although in fact it isn’t) as a hyperbolic extension of “double-dyed”.

]]> By: Kevin Sam http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/#comment-3575 Kevin Sam Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1188#comment-3575 Very interesting how the translators expressed double-dyed and triple-dyed instead of archcriminal (NAB), archscoundrel (NJB), or just wicked criminal (GNT). I love it. Very interesting how the translators expressed double-dyed and triple-dyed instead of archcriminal (NAB), archscoundrel (NJB), or just wicked criminal (GNT). I love it.

]]> By: ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/#comment-3541 ElShaddai Edwards Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:14:23 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1188#comment-3541 Ha, good one! Well, yes, there is that too... perhaps it *is* as simple as the REB team going for basic alliterative effect, while the NEB retained more literalism - that would buck the trend of the REB being the more "literal" of the two. Ha, good one! Well, yes, there is that too… perhaps it *is* as simple as the REB team going for basic alliterative effect, while the NEB retained more literalism – that would buck the trend of the REB being the more “literal” of the two.

]]> By: Nathan Stitt http://heissufficient.com/2008/10/02/i-double-no-triple-dog-dare-you/#comment-3540 Nathan Stitt Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:49:23 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1188#comment-3540 I can't believe that the phrase <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration" rel="nofollow">double-dyed</a> was too obvious for you? If not that, then I'm equally baffled as well. I can’t believe that the phrase double-dyed was too obvious for you? If not that, then I’m equally baffled as well.

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