Thread: Georgette Heyer - An appreciation by Stephen Fry
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Old 10-11-2021, 03:36 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by 4691mls View Post
Probably the best they can do is try to write characters who act in a manner appropriate to their time period and avoid using any modern-day slang. Maybe throw in an occasional period slang word for flavor.

THIS! It might be very difficult to know which words writers of the time DID use, but it's very easy to know which ones they did NOT. My recent bad experience with an anachronism-riddled Hindi translation of The Jungle Book reminded me how jarring such "time jumps" are and how effectively they take one out of the story.
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