LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.11 (03) [E]

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From: Kevin Caldwell <kcaldwell31 at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.10 (09) [E]]

> From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Language varieties

> To answer Ben's question, the King James Bible is written in a consciously
> slightly archaic English, but I would judge that it is overall more
> comprehensible now than Shakespeare is.  His sentences are much longer and
> more complexly structured, which doesn't help. Luther revised his
> translations, of course, so a straightforward comparison is impossible.
> But
> even the 1546 text is much further from Modern German than the King James
> Bible is from Modern English.
>

Keep in mind that the KJV with which we are most familiar is the mid-18th
century revision (I forget the year, but I want to say 1757).  The 1611 KJV
is much more difficult to read, but still easier than Shakespeare.

Kevin Caldwell (kcaldwell31 at comcast.net)

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