tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post7489578774015825959..comments2023-11-02T15:31:22.535+00:00Comments on Michelle Styles:: Life in half termMichelle Styleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03400990189443593076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post-2578581456658370242007-06-03T13:16:00.000+01:002007-06-03T13:16:00.000+01:00I follow the line that characters in a historical ...I follow the line that characters in a historical novel would sound normal to themselves, so why put a barrier between them and the reader by trying to make them sound ancient? <BR/>For all the reasons you state it is impossible to know how they spoke in 1066, and even after the written records appear (often in translation, too) we all know that dialogue is very differnt to written language.<BR/>I enjoyed doing the refresher on McKee - I still have pages of notes I made when I read it.<BR/>Jen<BR/>Jen BlackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post-11928054323501526342007-05-30T14:12:00.000+01:002007-05-30T14:12:00.000+01:00Happy Birthday to Katharine!And as far as modern l...Happy Birthday to Katharine!<BR/><BR/>And as far as modern language, did you hear some of the dialogue in ROME? You didn't slip into english vernacular compared to that, not at all. :-)<BR/><BR/>It's tough being a groundbreaker, isn't it. :-)Donna Alwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18107885864783850332noreply@blogger.com