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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/1/2022 9:09 AM, Will Martin wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:F537B082-D429-4024-AF67-B75C994AA8B5@gmail.com">
<div class="">Good answer to the question. Meanwhile, the example
brings up the issue of religious speech.</div>
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<p>How does religion have anything to do with this?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:F537B082-D429-4024-AF67-B75C994AA8B5@gmail.com">“Love
thy neighbor” is not formal speech. It’s religious speech. “Thou
shalt not kill” is not formal speech. It is religious speech.</blockquote>
<p>It's the style specifically of the King James Bible. If you read
a different translation of the bible, you get different styles.<br>
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cite="mid:F537B082-D429-4024-AF67-B75C994AA8B5@gmail.com"> It may
have been formal speech when translated into the language of the
first generally distributed translation of the Bible, but now, it
is spoken only in religious context.</blockquote>
<p>It was stylized when it was translated. According to Wikipedia,
because the English language was undergoing great change at the
time it was translated, the panel of translators deliberately
"avoided contemporary idioms, tending instead toward forms that
were already slightly archaic." It uses <i>thou/thee</i> and <i>ye/you</i>
as singular and plural pronouns, but by this time <i>you </i>was
usually the singular used. The King James Bible wasn't formal when
it was published, it was <i>stilted.</i></p>
<p>If you have a religion and you don't happen to refer to the KJB,
you probably don't speak like this in a religious context.</p>
<p>I don't think the King James Bible was the first generally
distributed translation of the bible. I might guess that the
Gutenberg bible was, which was a Latin Vulgate edition, not
English. I doubt the KJB was even the first widely distributed
English translation.<br>
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cite="mid:F537B082-D429-4024-AF67-B75C994AA8B5@gmail.com"> Legal
context is formal, but it wouldn’t use those words. Academics use
formal speech, though some of that is jargon, as is some legal
speech, etc. Newscasters use formal speech. Journalists use formal
speech. Teachers use and teach formal speech.</blockquote>
<p>There are levels of formality. An academic paper is typically
more formal than a newscast, which is typically more formal than
the average high school English class.<br>
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cite="mid:F537B082-D429-4024-AF67-B75C994AA8B5@gmail.com">
<div class="">Meanwhile, informal speech similarly has many
dialects, and slang is a form of jargon, though perhaps it is
understood by a larger group of people.</div>
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<p>You'll need to first establish that the prefix trick is specific
to some level of formality or informality before you start trying
to identify which it belongs to.<br>
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