Posted by:
SL Cabbie
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Date: September 28, 2016 07:39AM
And offer some minor "nitpicking" editing/grammatical suggestions (I'm up up late waiting for the warm milk to kick in, and my former-life-as-an-English-Teacher is invading my neuroses :-).
The word "corn" predates the staple grain we all know arose from "maize" and its ancient ancestor, teosinte.
http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-etymology-of-the-word-cornI'm not a Biblical scholar by any stretch, but the word's use in scripture can lead to confusion. I'm not sure the BOM authors were aware of this fact.
And here were some typos that crept in that "need fixing":
>There are multiple problems with this realization.
I want a colon at the end... The next definitely needs a question mark:
>How can we know who the Lamanites are, if they were intermingled with ancient Asians.
>In fact, in reading the Book of Mormon, it appears that the Nephites subsisted on an European diet, which miraculously left no archaeological evidence.
A European diet; the word begins with a "consonant sound" even if it's the product of two vowels. And "integrate" in the following should be in the past tense. Also, I would leave out the first "that" just to avoid a bit of "wordiness" (same with the sentence above. A very minor "style point").
>Third, the Book of Mormon never suggests that the people integrate with any population that is NOT from the Middle-East.