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# I'm really sorry but I think that may have been shopped already
Penguin Classics? The Koran?
(, Thu 29 May 2008, 8:54, archived)
# yeah
it's not the greatest translation because he tried to make it sound like hte king james bible.

"let's see. we've got this book we want to translate. shall we translate it into english, or shall we translate it into a form of late middle english which was ostentatiously archaic even back in jacobean days, which obscures meanings and introduces confusion everywhere but which people for some reason think is more godlike? late middle english it is."
(, Thu 29 May 2008, 9:04, archived)