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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
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.
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Well, not necessarily. I wouldn't have guessed that manipulate, flawlessly, or selfless are anachronistic in a Regency setting, for instance.
But some words are blatantly out of place. I remember some of the anachronisms you described in that Jungle Book translation -- those were really bad.
One of the most annoying anachronisms I've seen is an author describing customer service employees with name tags in 1909. (At least I assume it's an anachronism -- I may be wrong, of course, but it felt really out of place!)