Isn’t it fascinating how all of the Mormon revelations collected by Joseph Smith arrived in Early Modern English instead of the everyday American English of the 1830s? Why would the Angel Moroni or the stone spectacles Joseph Smith used result in English of 1611 instead of American English as spoken 1830?
I mean the King James Bible sounds the way that it does because the translators spoke Early Modern English in their daily life. There’s nothing magical about the language of the King James Bible after all- it’s just what English sounded like when they were doing their work. And it’s not what American English sounded like when Joseph Smith was alive. Read Edgar Allen Poe or James Fennimore Cooper you’ll see that 1830s American English sounds like what we use today except for our slang.
You almost would think that the Mormon writings were designed specifically to impress people by sounding like the KJV instead of being the revelation and translation that they purport to be.
Well...
... the English Revised Version of 1881-1885 hadn't come into existence yet.
What ELSE would a fella plagiarize?