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Old 08-18-2022, 11:15 AM   #331
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
And it happens constantly today. If you're reading a novel set in, say, 1810, the characters will look/speak/act as though they are in 2022. It's...frustrating. I don't mind the author "softening" what would be infuriating attitudes, for the reading audience, a bit or rather, tamping them down, but pretending that they don't exist? Nyah.

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Indeed. Conversely, I'm always impressed when a character expresses viewpoints that are progressive for the time, and does so more or less in the language of the time. My patience and tolerance for lazy writers who just dump modern characters as is into an 'historical' setting is now itself history.
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