 Friends         |  cupholder: I feel like such a dunce. I looked at the Book of Mormon yersterday to determine what potential paragraph markers the text might indicate and I couldn't see any. Each chapter is a cohesive whole and flows from one concept to the next. Royal Skousen is correct that the Book of Mormon should be read with the chapters divided as they were on the plates, even as the first edition had them (1830), but with sense line divisions. Skousen went wrong in inserting his own paragraph divisions into the text and in adding some addiitional punctuation. The Book of Mormon should be read without punctuation, using only sense lines. I'll write a blog post to illustrate what I'm talking about by showing the title page and the first chapter, along with some introductory material in case people unfamiliar with the book happen to read what I write. 12 years ago • Reply • Report • Link Collapse Show Comments (3) 0  cupholder: Oh, well. It won't let me post it. I guess it is too long. 12 years ago • Reply • Report 0 cupholder: Well, I was able to get some of it onto the blog, by cutting it into pieces, but the first chapter is still too long to go through... 12 years ago • Reply • Report 0 cupholder: Ah, I got the chapter posted, by cutting it in half. So, now people can see what I mean by sense lines and lack of punctuation. 12 years ago • Reply • Report 0 |
