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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
It wasn't overlooked. It was specifically discounted on p.33 where it is stated that Modern English and Modern Anglish are too far separated for meaningful crossover
Even if there had been no other influences since the language of the "English" speakers in the original Banestorm was halfway between Beowulf and Chaucer.
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Thanks. It's nice to see that somebody has actually RTM. It's always a little irksome to be told that we'd overlooked something when we
had in fact covered it, in cold print.
My impulse to realism there may be annoying to people who'd much prefer Anglish to be modern English with a few cod-Shakespearean sirrahs and zounds, and I guess I should have anticipated this. It seems to have been a convention of 3e worldbooks that modern English is in fact a strange attractor in linguistic n-space - never mind Yrth, we have
Centrum speaking it - but I've read just enough Chaucer to suppress that reflex.