Reading
Last night I finished a novel. It was a fantasy romance, enjoyable except for a few things that bothered me a bit. One aspect will mention here, to see if it bothers anyone else, or is this one of those visual-reader things that makes one sound nastily picky?
That is, in a fantasy world that has nothing to do with Earth as far as I could tell, the names are all fantasy names, etc, the characters say "Okay." The heroine "tunes out" noises: she replays memories and erases one. I didn't mind "wearing camo" and "covert ops" so much because I would assume there would be similar terms in their language. Maybe the dividing line comes between what one can accept as generic and what binds one to our culture. For me, "tuning in" is specific to radio and early TV. (A side-note here, almost nobody ever uses "tune" any more, as who plays an instrument, as people used to so frequently before our electronic home entertainment systems?) There were a lot more of these little jolts that brought images of modern life here.
That is, in a fantasy world that has nothing to do with Earth as far as I could tell, the names are all fantasy names, etc, the characters say "Okay." The heroine "tunes out" noises: she replays memories and erases one. I didn't mind "wearing camo" and "covert ops" so much because I would assume there would be similar terms in their language. Maybe the dividing line comes between what one can accept as generic and what binds one to our culture. For me, "tuning in" is specific to radio and early TV. (A side-note here, almost nobody ever uses "tune" any more, as who plays an instrument, as people used to so frequently before our electronic home entertainment systems?) There were a lot more of these little jolts that brought images of modern life here.