What level of reading ability should set the norm for our literary culture?

In the entry, “The NIV hits another home run,” a reader disagrees with my preference for the King James Version over the modern translations. He says that the line I quote from Psalm 17 in the KJV, “They are enclosed in their own fat,” is meaningless to him, as is the entire KJV and all of Shakespeare. I reply.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 03, 2012 08:33 PM | Send
    

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