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Old 08-19-2022, 01:37 PM   #359
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
"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.
When the term adrenaline fueled is used, you know what it means. If the term jumps was used, the author would have to describe it in more detail when a modern term could have been used instead. I'd go for the modern term.
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