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Originally Posted by Praxeas
that is just not true. Study languages and you'll see that all languages evolve over time. The English they spoke in 1600 is not the same as today. We don't see "Ye" and "thou" because our language has evolved.
Many words used THEN have evolved in meaning. Whether you agree with that or not is irrelevant because it still means the language of the KJV is outdated...from an era that is long past, from a time when words did not always mean what they mean today.
Yes Victorian English is outdated
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Yes, indeed.
Gone are the days when an "s" looked like an "f", and cry was spelled
crie and the letter "j" was still considered an "i". It's way more than just thee's and thou's and ye's and wherefore's. "V" and "u" were at one time indistinguishable, as well.
The original 1611 is nigh on unreadable to most people, not just because their modern English reading skills have declined, but because the original 1611 version doesn't even look like the English we know today.
It even included the Apocrypha!
There have been revisions, not to the text, but to the English language, the spelling, the morphology of certain letters, and etc.
I have a reprint. It's a headache trying to read some parts of it.
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