Where do you get these great userpics? That's wonderful.
Yes, yes, and yes again - I certainly wasn't criticizing Sutcliff's usual dialogue - as you say, whatever you do with dialogue is going to have problems. Oh, but since you opened yourself up for it, and might possibly have escaped my ranting about this before, I'm going to share with you the line from I, Coriander (1660s, supposedly) that caused steepholm and me incredulity, rage and hilarity, in about equal measure: the evil stepmother says 'She be faking it'.
Anyway, it was just this case, with this poor character who'd hardly be able to speak, in all likelihood, let alone speak perfectly. But in general, it is a double problem in the Really, Really Past. This came up in another form with the audiobook version of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Gatty's Tale, which is set in about 1200 - the narrator did the accents for the Welsh, Italians, French and all, and it did cause us a bit of -- discussion. (The 'accents' weren't the author's doing, though he does distinguish for class, which is interesting again!)
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Date: 2008-04-18 02:45 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, and yes again - I certainly wasn't criticizing Sutcliff's usual dialogue - as you say, whatever you do with dialogue is going to have problems. Oh, but since you opened yourself up for it, and might possibly have escaped my ranting about this before, I'm going to share with you the line from I, Coriander (1660s, supposedly) that caused steepholm and me incredulity, rage and hilarity, in about equal measure: the evil stepmother says 'She be faking it'.
Anyway, it was just this case, with this poor character who'd hardly be able to speak, in all likelihood, let alone speak perfectly. But in general, it is a double problem in the Really, Really Past. This came up in another form with the audiobook version of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Gatty's Tale, which is set in about 1200 - the narrator did the accents for the Welsh, Italians, French and all, and it did cause us a bit of -- discussion. (The 'accents' weren't the author's doing, though he does distinguish for class, which is interesting again!)