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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-06-06 06:34 pm

[ SECRET POST #4535 ]


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(Anonymous) 2019-06-06 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I sort of agree? And I actually like flowery writing most of the time, but it seems like a lot of writers don't have the touch for it, and it often seems very ersatz - like it's based on a very narrow received idea of what Victorian style should be like.

(Anonymous) 2019-06-06 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

(Anonymous) 2019-06-07 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
This. It's a little more flowery than contemporary language, but some authors think that means super run on sentences or just plain incomprehensible writing.

(Anonymous) 2019-06-07 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and that's another thing - writing sentences with the length, complexity and structure often employed by the Victorians, and doing so effectively, requires a grammatical rigor and precision that's unaccustomed now.

Not saying that's a good or bad thing, particularly, just the style of the times.

(Anonymous) 2019-06-07 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
IA. I don't think many people grasp that, and their efforts are just...long sentences with shaky verb conjugation and too many adjectives.

(Anonymous) 2019-06-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
This is exactly how I feel about people who try to write Jane Austen sequels in the same style. Not that very many people try, which is both disappointing and... well, probably just as well.