This is paternalism at its finest: the assumption that plebes and commoners couldn’t possibly be expected to hear a “thee” or “thou” without a knuckle-headed chuckle. I have indeed heard visitors occasionally make a snide remark about the old, “stuffy” language — but every single one of them, without exception, was a white, middle-class, college-educated baby boomer. It is boomer culture that most fears being perceived as elitist and that idolizes (a superficial understanding of) “authenticity.” To the extent that younger generations share in this aversion to the old and elevated, it reflects the enduring effects of the 1960’s overthrow of culture. It is a cancer that needs cutting out — not catering.

In reality, it only takes a few weeks at most to begin to get inside the rhythms and cadences and vocabulary of “1662 language” and to recognize its appeal. That’s the beauty of beauty: it attracts.
– Fr. Mark Perkins, Can These Bones Live?