Posted by Septach on December 03, 1999 at 16:19:27:
In Reply to: Give me a break posted by Septach on December 03, 1999 at 16:17:59:
> > I believe his point is your diction is poor, the rp want to is there, but its glaringly obvious to me that the line "Good cop Bad Cop" in particular runs in contrast to the rest of the log, there just aren't any "Cops" in the Thera I imagine, maybe Arbiters would've fit in, but still thats a modern day phrase that just doesn't fit...your effort is commendable. > For the love of God. You want to get that nitpicky about colloquial terms? Well then Pikel, I want to see you speak in nothing but early modern English. I want you to walk around saying "cnapan" and "hlaford": nothing but early modern english.
> Think about it: we are playing cf using today's language. Today's terminology. Do you think that just because the time frame cf is set in was 1000 years ago *or whatever* no one had slang terms? No one used nicknames for law enforcers? For authority figures? No one had harsh, lewd swear words? If you think this, I can assure you that you are around.
> I see nothing wrong *whatsoever* with saying something like "bull" or "good cop bad cop" because since we *can't all speak using EME* we have to use some sort of diction to replace it. If anything, we should all play cf using the worst spelling and grammar we can because back in the medieval time frame, there was no set language or grammar, and there was no education system to speak of.
> You want to pick on anachronyms, I can assure you there are more than plenty in the game to find without ripping up one person's choice of phrases.