Re: There's no reason to assume a name change
That makes good sense and very well explained. However, as long as Mr. Bennet is alive, Collins is heir presumptive, not heir apparent.
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JanetR wrote:> That makes good sense and very well explained. However, as long as Mr. Bennet is> alive, Collins is heir presumptive, not heir apparent.You're absolutely right. Thanks for the...
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I struggle with that. I know to avoid "okay" and "alright" and "texting" and "ROFLMAO", but I don't go online to check the date of appearance and meaning of every single word I put in a character's...
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These attributions are not infallible, you know. The industrial revolution led to a huge increase in material prosperity, so there was a lot more stuff in print, which are the sources of these dates....
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What you say makes sense, except that if Jane and Collins have the same grandfather, then Collins isn't going to call Mr Bennet "cousin", he's going to call him "uncle" (no matter how casual they are...
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Lightning on the moors. Howling dogs. A frantic gallop through a blinding rain. A lost letter and a missing child!
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Alan Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> JanetR wrote:> > That makes good sense and very well explained.> However, as long as Mr. Bennet is> > alive,...
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I think Alan actually dropped a generation in the last paragraph or two. Earlier, he posited that Mr. Bennet's grandfather wrote the entail, and that Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet's first cousin....
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If the admins wish to change the name to Cal for this comment and delete one from the board, please feel free. Thanks.Despite my earlier comment further down the comment stream......
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Someone ages ago sent me a link to some Regency romance author's blog where the author had compiled a Jane Austen concordance as a dictionary for her word processor, so she could pick out potential...
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Scratch that last comment, as I immediately found it in my email: The Jane Austen Word List.
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A baronetcy is a title, and most titles could pass only through the male line; so the Elliot baronetcy could go only to the son of an Elliot male, not to the son of an Elliot female. There were some...
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I looked at this, and the list of words she was cutting out of her latest novel because they didn't pass muster. And do you know what word it turns out they did NOT use in our modern sense? BLINKED!!...
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One recommendation - do avoid "fiance/fiancee" - both are much later than the either time period! Betrothed or affianced are alternatives. And - avoid Americanisms - miss out the gottens, butts, vest...
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I do think you have to find a balance. No one from the Regency period is ever going to read what you've written (unless you find a hole in the fabric of space/time?) so ultimately, you have to...
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Anachronisms work both ways, and we have to walk the tightrope between them. You can’t slap your readers with things that jar and distract, but neither can you insult your characters with modernisms...
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A few additions if one wishes to follow Austen's usage when writing Regency fan fiction based on her novels: she writes 'towards' instead of 'toward'; she writes 'different from' and not 'different...
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Re blink, did you read the comments with her list, especially referring to Johnson's 1755 dictionary (and evidently a reference to a later edition of it from 1766)? The case was being made that one...
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