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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) by NewsyHacker on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:06PM (#38756367)
Why do you think the KJV is the "original translation"? As far as English translations of Scripture go, it was preceded by the Wycliffe Bible. And a translation of the Gospels was produced in the Old English era.
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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) by biorach on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:24PM (#38756533)
While technically true this is somewhat pedantic, the KJV was the first vernacular translation to be widely available in the English speaking world and is a hugely influential text for literary English, so just take "original" here in a metaphoric sense.
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