Little Princess, giving up in exasperation after thumbing through a King James version of the New Testament: “They’re all talking like pirates in here.”

Huh. Maybe that long-ago translation was actually ordered by Long Jim Silver, King of the Seven Seas.

Imagine if it had been!

“Then God said, ‘Yo ho ho, let thar be light,’ and blimey, thar was light.”

“The Lord be me Captain, I shall be wantin’ fer nothin’.”

“Blessed be th’ poor’ scurvy dogs, fer they shall be gettin’ a world o’ booty.”

“Then a certain scallywag shouted, ‘Ahoy! Out of all th’ commandments, which be the greatest?’ Then Jesus said “Avast, o Israel! Ye shall be lovin’ the Lord your Commander with all yer heart, with all yer soul, with all yer mind an’ with all yer blood and bones, and ye shall be lovin’ yer mateys as yerself. There be no other commandment greater than these.”

Hey, if you can do it in Klingon, why not?