771: Period Speech
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| − | + | :[A sword-wielding actor on a stage addresses three others; one has a spear, another a handgun and a knife, and the third a laptop.] | |
| − | + | :Actor: Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties? | |
| − | + | :Actors: Ten-four! | |
| − | + | :A few centuries from now, all the English of the past 400 years will sound equally old-timey and interchangeable. | |
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Latest revision as of 00:05, 17 March 2013
| Period Speech |
 Title text: The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care. |
[edit] Explanation
The actors on this stage are using language and technology from different time periods, but the premise is that hundreds of years in the future, nobody will notice. For example, "Forsooth" is from Shakespearean times; "Ten-Four" was popular during the 1970s CB radio craze. Note that one actor is carrying a spear, another has a handgun and another has a laptop computer.
[edit] Transcript
- [A sword-wielding actor on a stage addresses three others; one has a spear, another a handgun and a knife, and the third a laptop.]
- Actor: Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties?
- Actors: Ten-four!
- A few centuries from now, all the English of the past 400 years will sound equally old-timey and interchangeable.
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