Re: Slang attack

David Friedman wrote:
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.


That particular dissonance is deliberate, and variations are endemic to the setting. The protagonist also has plot-significant trouble with conflicting cultural signals.

Modernity in the otherworld is... *different*.

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Cheers,

Gray

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