Re: Slang attack
- From: David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:30:06 -0500
In article <48917e14_3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Graham Woodland <gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Duke: "[annoying mystical riddling about enemy activity in
the vicinity] ...Should I have known, should I have cared?"
"I should cocoa!" the Prince returned warmly. "[why they are in
another deep brown substance] ...How'd you care to be caught
between hammer and anvil?"
(Should you have known and cared? I should bloody say so!)
One further problem with this is that it is modern slang. To my ear, at
least, if fantasy has a pre-modern setting, modern slang sounds wrong.
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