Huh! I went to a posh grammar school and we had to *sing* the Lord's Prayer!
But I agree that some forms of English are best left alone, such as the King
James Version. And I thought it was an awful thing to abandon the Tridentine
Mass. Some poetry/prose should be left in the language it was intended to be
in. You only have to listen to the Ode to Joy sung in English (sticks finger
down throat)...
Mike
> > > > Whoever decided it would be a Good Thing to
> > > > have a 'new' English version!
> > >
> > > Why is it a bad thing?
> >
> > Some traditions simply shouldn't be messed with.
> that.
> >
> > Which is totally beside the point. People of all
> > education levels get along wonderfully with the
> > elevated speech found in KJV (which is on par
> > with the standard English paternoster).
> >
> >
> > Would you prefer Yeats or Poe or Tolkien be
> > dumbed down to a first grade reading level, just
> > so it "makes sense" to the most people? Sad.
> >
> > Padraic.
> >
> >
> For what it's worth ... I was raised Catholic and can remember having to
> say the Our Father out loud in (US, public) grade school.
>
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