The instruments and the scribe
Page 75 Nathoni asked whether the ancient people had used semicolons. Moroni answered that some mysteries were best left to the compositor.
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6 The record contained a recurring expression marking the arrival of events, revelations, disagreements, and meals.
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7 Tylarion rendered it: And I shit you not.
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8 The messenger inclined his head. The meaning, he said, had survived the journey.
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9 A later reader inquired whether the phrase lacked solemnity. Nathoni asked whether the reader had ever been seriously surprised.
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10 Certain passages concerning offices, subscriptions, and the keeping of minutes were unusually easy to translate.
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11 Tylarion praised the foresight of the ancients. Moroni observed that some difficulties had survived without requiring prophecy.
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12 Where the plate gave a question, they kept the question. Where it gave an unfinished sentence, they resisted finishing the universe on its behalf.
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13 And the translation proceeded, with great attention to meaning and occasional disagreement about the dash.
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THE RECOVERY / CHAPTER 3
The instruments and the scribe
The golden record meets the Urim and Thummim; a seer stone receives considerable attention; Nathoni continues asking what was actually written.
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The interpreters: an imaginative instrument study.
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1 And I shit you not, Tylarion asked Moroni what instruments would be supplied for rendering the golden plates into readable English.
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2 Moroni brought a pair of clear stones in a metal setting, and called them interpreters.