Re: CHAT: Lord's Prayer

Don Blaheta wrote:

> > To make it truly everyday English you'd probably have to say something
> > like "May your kingdom come... May your will be done... May your name
> > be considered holy"?
>
> Or perhaps "your kingdom shall come...", but that doesn't have the right
> prayery sort of ring to it.
Good point:  why *would* you want it to be just "everyday" English?
(And by this I take it to mean:  the type of language that you'd use
everyday yourself, not necessarily what you'd write, nor what you'd
say in a speech, or something)

Sure, it needs to reflect the language of the moderner, but that doesn't
mean you need to dip into the street talk and colloquialisms that we all
use -- afterall, there *are* legitimate upper level registers which no one
would find offensive.

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