Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitch
My thinking about this would be that the physiological result/event, with which we are all familiar--for me, it's that electrical "jolt" in the bottom of my feet--is known to everybody, regardless of when they lived.
The book's characters may not know the word or term "adrenaline," (or what causes that), but surely, they know it's something, yes? The pounding heart, the narrowed vision...? Would you care if they called it something like "jumps"? (or some made-up term).
I'm not arguing; I'm curious. Or do you mean that you object to when they discuss--in this historical period--the effects of adrenalin, in a medical way, of which they could not be aware?
Hitch
|
"Jumps" would be fine with me. Adrenaline, for me, is the name of a hormone, not the name of the feeling it causes (regrettably they're used interchangeably in modern fiction). People with a medieval-level civilization cannot know anything about hormones, hence I'll be jolted out of the story immediately.
Possibly people who are used to thinking about adrenaline mostly as a feeling, not a hormone, wouldn't even notice. I do, though.