{"id":375,"date":"2006-11-03T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/11\/03\/on-a-quote-about-kjv-style\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T15:08:00","slug":"on-a-quote-about-kjv-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/11\/03\/on-a-quote-about-kjv-style\/","title":{"rendered":"on a quote about KJV style"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up a little book on writing in a thrift store last spring. I think I payed all of one dollar for a hardback… The book is On Writing Well: <\/span><\/a>The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction<\/a> by William Zinsser, a former professor at Yale, well known editor, etc. If you can find this book, I highly recommend it. It is actually a very enjoyable read with some laugh out loud sections on various points of writing. I don’t know if it has improved my writing, although I do find myself paying more attention to how I phrase things.<\/p>\n

In a section where Zinsser pushes writing with active verbs, he has this interesting little quote:<\/p>\n

If you want to see how active verbs give vitality to the written word, don’t just go back to Hemingway or Thurber or Thoreau, I commend the King James Bible and William Shakespeare. [p. 112]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>Zinsser is not a believer, I am sure. But this observation is interesting. I would like to know how well the modern versions have followed this pattern by the KJV translators. Perhaps this element of the KJV explains some of its enduring quality. While I am not against the need to modernize, I do love the KJV phraseology on so many points. Sometimes the newer versions seem just kind of wimpy and anemic. Perhaps we could start a new slogan, “Real men read the KJV.”<\/p>\n

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
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