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Apr. 24th, 2004 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm reading Ash by Mary gentle at the moment and it's good once I'd got my head round the modern letters bit. But Ash keeps using 20th century sayings, that possibly should have been edited out. It just isn't very believeable when they are footnoting the armour and then she says step into my office, ground or shit hits the fan. It's lazy writing really.
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Date: 2004-04-24 09:45 am (UTC)Bit of a cop out I agree, but read shakespeare - lots of swearing and sayings that just don't convey teh right impression anymore - translating to modern idiom gives the intended impression.
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Date: 2004-04-24 10:19 pm (UTC)