06-10-2016, 12:05 PM
Very happy to have been some help.
Had no trouble with the dialect passages or terms. Some might; no reason to change them.
Missed "two by two" reference to the original gopher-wood Ark, perhaps because the name hadn't come up in the reading yet at that point.
That problematic article: leaving off "the" before a (naval) ship's name could be elitist; not being a naval person, I don't know what the actual usage is (probably usiing "the" since there's only going to be one ship of a given name at one time). However, both the US and French Navies include (or have at one time included) the article as part of some ships' names - USS The Sullivans, Le Mars, La Palme - and I see naval writers leaving off the article unless it's so included. It may be pretentious to leave it off; I don't know.
Had no trouble with the dialect passages or terms. Some might; no reason to change them.
Missed "two by two" reference to the original gopher-wood Ark, perhaps because the name hadn't come up in the reading yet at that point.
That problematic article: leaving off "the" before a (naval) ship's name could be elitist; not being a naval person, I don't know what the actual usage is (probably usiing "the" since there's only going to be one ship of a given name at one time). However, both the US and French Navies include (or have at one time included) the article as part of some ships' names - USS The Sullivans, Le Mars, La Palme - and I see naval writers leaving off the article unless it's so included. It may be pretentious to leave it off; I don't know.
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