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Originally Posted by Blossom
My problem reading historicals that are New School is the language is often too modern. I just can't read a book that doesn't have the correct dialogue for that period or uses modern sayings but I will give a author a try once or twice before I stop reading them.
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IIRC Milan wrote about this at some point on her blog but I cant search it up now. She used the word "shag" (for sex) in one of her Victorians. The word dates to the 1700s being used like that but it sounds "off" or "too modern" for readers of historicals--despite being perfectly authentic.
Historical authors do run into this from time to time. Gillian Bradshaw wrote a book about ancient Rome that had a (former) female gladiator in it. Someone complained that female gladiators were laughably, unbelievably inauthentic. Bradshaw (a classical scholar) responded with citations...