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To be fair, on rare occasions the questions come forth with some sincerity.
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This is where things like Burgon, Hills, Grady and Holland are useful, especially in regards to combating the present propaganda regarding issues concerning original text and translation.
Some King James Bible preference writers like to show the weakness of the modernist position from their own lack of consistency (like quoting modern versions that disagree, etc.). This certainly makes a point, but it is not the whole picture: to prove the King James Bible is authority based upon its own self is primary to the foundation for all such dealings with those infected by modernist thinking.
Our authority of Scripture is based upon the advent and perfect content of present (and enduring) Scripture as interpreted spiritually. This means that there is no need to aid interpretation and understanding of the Scripture by relying upon foreign or original languages, since the manifest Scripture in English contains all things which are necessary, so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.