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1 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | Bereaniam | 175095 | ||
Tanks again Hank. Are you a professional writer? I love your similes, metaphors, descriptive language, and imagery. But most of all, the Godly wisdom. His, Bereaniam |
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2 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | Hank | 175127 | ||
Dear Bereaniam (Margaret) - Me a professional writer? Oh, seeing as how I'm one of a handful of settlers here in the Ozarks what can write, I've writ a bit for the Muscadine Holler Weekly Gazette and Funny Paper. Once when the paper was really booming, we had a circulation of 23, but we lost a few subscribers along the way. Two families moved up to the big-city life of Bentonville and got jobs with Wal-Mart, and old Uncle Caleb, he quit taking the Gazette on account of his eyes went bad on him, and his wife Maud she cain't reed, so it warn't no use for them to keep prescribing to the paper I reckon. I've writ lots of artickles for our church paper for many years. And I up and wrote a novel once which my friends sorta liked, but the publisher he wanted me to change a few things and I told him no. Then I've writ a few posts for this here Study Bible Farm and shore do like sharing the good news of our blessed Savior with precious souls like you. Somebody just the other day said to me, he said, "Hank, why don't you write professionally?" I told him I couldn't commence to do something like till I looked up what 'professionally' meant, and it may be a while before I can do that. You see, we ain't got but one dictionary in the Holler and Cousin Lemuel he axidentally dropped it in Muddy Creek the other day and ain't been able to fish it out yet. Cousin Lemuel ain't the brightest star in the Galaxy. Nobody with any smarts would take a dictionary with him when he goes fishing in Muddy Creek. --Hank | ||||||
3 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | azurelaw | 175140 | ||
Dear Hank, I have noticed in some of your recent posts, you have used some strange language or spelling (it looks like so to me) in reply to one or two specific writers, say Bereaniam (Margaret)?. Was it your intention to communicate with them this way? I always enjoy reading your comments and some others' too, say Doc, Kalos, Steve, to name a few. Since I am not a native English speaker, your new approach will add to me some difficulties in understanding your message. I would appreciate it if you could make your language plain (I am not sure if I used the proper wordings here). However, if you think this is the most comfortable or best way for you to communicate with these brothers or sisters, certainly I sincerely respect your choice. Then I have to tune myself to comprehend better :-) In Christ Azure |
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4 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | Hank | 175156 | ||
Dear Azure - The "strange language" you mentioned that has characterized a very small percentage of my posts is not my usual way of writing, as you can judge by the overwhelming majority of posts I've made to Study Bible Forum. I use this occasional departure from my usual writing style as a change of pace and, not infrequently, to make a point that I feel needs making but which in all probability would be considered harsh or vitriolic if it were not softened by the cominc relief of the "strange" language, as you call it. And, I may as well confess, the use of "hillbilly" dialect is at least in part the unabashed indulgence of an old man (I am 71 years old) in nostalgia ..... This "strange" language, by the way, is a more or less authentic reproduction of some of the regional dialects I heard spoken as I was growing up in the southern part of the United States in the 1940's and 1950's. It was a colorful variation of standard English, and even now out in some of the rural areas of the South, one who has a keen ear for language can detect still a certain amount of the old dialects mixed in with more standard English than was the case when I was a boy. If you care to broaden your knowledge of this "strange" language, I suggest you read some of our stellar writers from the South and the Mississippi River Valley -- Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Harper Lee, Marjorie Kennan Rawlings, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and many others. ..... By the way, Azure, I congratulate you on your ability to handle yourself well in the English language. You do it far better than some people whose native tongue is English! What is your native language, if you'd care to tell us? We appreciate your presence on SBF and encourage you to continue to break the bread of life with us as we attempt to dig deeper into the riches of God's eternal word. And a parting word aimed at being an encouraging one: Don't despair that you have difficulty with some of the posts, not only my few dialectic ones, but others as well. While most of the users of this Forum express themselves clearly, a few do not, and it is therefore very hard for all the rest of us to understand what those few are trying to communicate. So, Azure, as you did with me, it is perfectly all right to ask for a clarification from those who have not made themselves clear. Agape. --Hank | ||||||
5 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | DocTrinsograce | 175157 | ||
Whew, brother Hank! Good news! All this time I thought you were typing in tongues! :-) | ||||||
6 | One Pastor and one assembly? | Acts 2:42 | azurelaw | 175222 | ||
Dear Doc, :-) Azure |
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