BBB:The King's English

   According to the Prince of Wales, who is destined to be the next
head of the Church of England, "Modern English is a wasteland of
cliches, obscenity, and banality." The English Prince, who comes from
the land of the Authorized Version, that produced the English
Protestant Reformation, declares that the English language "has become
impoverished, sloppy, and limited, a dismal wasteland (the Daily
Telegraph, Dec. 20,1989, no.41,832)". The Prince accused the editors of
the New English Bible and the Revised Standard Version of making
changes in the Authorized Version, just to lower the tone, and
believing that the rest of us wouldn't get the point if the word of God
was a bit over our heads." The Prince went on, "the word of God is
supposed to be a bit over our heads, elevated as God is."

   Never heard it put better anywhere. It will never be said to anybody
over here any better, even if they are what an apostate fundamentalist
would call a "Ruckmanite." This is the King with the King's English,
and where "the word of a King is, there is power." The Prince of Wales
contrasted "the glorious cadence of ribbons of Archbishop Thomas
Cranmer's book of "Common Prayer" with the craftiness of the
Alternative Service Book, whose language he likened to a newspeak
invented by George Orwell for his nightmare 1984 world. "Irate people
nowaday look in dismay at what is happening to the language. Looking at
the way English is used in our popular newspapers, our radio and
television programs, even our schools, and our theaters, they wonder
what it is about our country and our society that our language has
become so impoverished and so trite."

   You will never get it better anywhere. Going to the Greek for a
"clearer meaning" that "people would understand" is just rubbish. That
old King James Bible is so far over the head of the Greek and Hebrew
scholars, that when they are shown something from it that is true that
they didn't see, or that their teachers missed, they think it is a
heresy that came from a cult. That is how stupid they are. "God save
the King."