The Bible, Technical Slang Version
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[ Article crossposted from soc.religion.christian.bible-study ]
[ Author was David A. Cary ]
[ Posted on 29 May 1996 13:42:45 GMT ]

I was really inspired by reading _The Message of Hope_, a paraphrase of the Bible in modern English by Eugene H. Peterson.

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(The Bible, Technical Slang Version)

(A translation of portions of the Bible into the language David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org> speaks, a polyglot of American English, Electrical Engineering, Computer Hacker Jargon, with a dash of Greek, Hebrew and Deutsch.)
(Anybody who wants to contribute to and/or proofread this effort,

please contact <d.cary@ieee.org>. I want to make this a true translation of the Bible, not a mere parody. However, some bits of the Bible are genuinely humorous.).

Genesis 1:

"At time t = 0, Elohiym implemented the heavens and Earth.
Now Earth had low information content, ...
And Elohiym said, "Let there be electromagnetic radiation",
and there was electromagnetic radiation."
--Genesis 1:1 to 1:3, Technical Slang Version.

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The Fundamental Law of Bandwidth Conservation and Binary Communication:
"Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No';
anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
-- Jesus (Matthew 5:37)

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Bibliography and other things that seem somehow related.

Wycliffe Bible Translators (Do they have an email address?)

see ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew/jargon.zip for a Slang-to-English translation dictionary. (This is dated 1992 July; is there a more recent on-line version ?) ------

prefer: David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org> future tech (includes the PCMCIA PC Card FAQ): <http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/> <*>

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