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Originally Posted by Ransom
But having a large and old vocabulary, and purposely using it to show how many words you know that others do not, are very different things, and I believe that describes most of the modern LF writers.
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It still just boggles my mind that you think the above is an accurate description of how anyone writes, and that you somehow associate literary fiction with archaic language. This view is simply not founded in reality. Authors use the vocabulary that they have, and while an author of literary fiction may have a broader or less typical vocabulary, few if any now living are hung up on Chaucer.