XPost: alt.sci.physics, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: robban1@bigpond.com   
      
   On 5/05/12 8:59 AM, Howard Brazee wrote:   
   > On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:40:01 -0500, Carson Chittom   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Authorized Version of 1611 (aka. "King James Version") of the Bible   
   >> is only subject to copyright in the UK--or perhaps the Commonwealth; I   
   >> forget.  In any case, in the US it's in the public domain.  The New King   
   >> James Version, as I understand it, basically removes archaic usages and   
   >> words (e.g., "you" instead of "thou," and substituting "overcome" for   
   >> "comprehend" in the first chapter of St. John's Gospel).   
   >   
   > But everybody knows that God said 'thou".    And he cries when we use   
   > the Anglo-Saxon words for natural functions, instead of Latin or   
   > French.   
   >   
      
   Of course. I refuse to read those modern translations of the book that   
   King James wrote.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)