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Re: Your Storytelling Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Or not even trying to use period appropriate slang for, say, a story set in 1920.

See, this goes into the problems historical fiction writers as a whole have when running into dialogue. They have to make it sound old* and still have their audience understand them. The specific problem with slang is that it *doesn't* make a lot of sense without being explained and it's usually just easier to use a word your readers will know instead of dealing with that on a regular basis. Using your example...Honestly? A *lot* of what people say today was originated or in everyday use then. For example, "Absolutely" or "Carrying a torch" would be fine - but say..."Bearcat" would make no sense, and "Bimbo" would be confusing because it's meaning has changed so completely that it would just confuse the readers unless it's definition was given.

*Oddly enough, for things set during and after the early-mid 1800's that means "aging" the dialogue since, frankly, someone from say...the 1840's would actually talk almost identical to how we do today outside of occasionally sounding stiff, and the specific slang they used.