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Old 10-03-2007, 08:45 AM
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Default Re: Obsession to 18th century romance

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Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo View Post
It's difficult to read Shakespearian English though, especially for Americans. You have to remember that a few years back they released a new version of the Bible specifically for Americans, becuase the King James Version was just too hard for them to read.
Never had a problem with KJV. The only person I knew to have one was my philosophy teacher. He felt the edition had stripped the poetic prose from the bible and so preferred the original latin and greek texts.

Did the American version have words like "ya'll", and replace the -er's with -a"?
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