If you are going to write about a culture not your own, you have a heavy burden to do your research, be respectful and get it right.
– Ellen Oh
Tag: culture
Quotable 298
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Whenever you create a character you must allow for the existence of irrationality.
– Rita Mae Brown
Pen to Paper: The KJV Endureth
Today is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible.
The KJV was created during the Elizabethan era (if, as some scholars do, you stretch the definition a bit), perhaps the greatest moment the English language has known. William Shakespeare was wrapping up his contributions to English and would live only four more years after the KJV was unveiled. (Some people – numerologists and their prey, primarily – believe that Shakespeare wrote or helped to write the KJV and slipped his name into one of the Psalms. History gives no credence to these assertions.)