Public Domain Treasures . . .
The Public Domain Review is trying to raise a fairly modest amount as their grant ran out.
I don't know if you've discovered this site, but it is amazing. Like, take a look on the left-hand side. Victorian slang! The main reason I can't read most steampunk is because they screw up the language so much that I can't get into their world. Like Gail Carriger, in the latest one, which I opened and glanced at a page. Someone snobby accused someone else of being declasse. No! They would not have said that then! Using declasse was declasse! They would have said 'vulgar.'So I get popped right out of the story and back into my reading chair. How I wish she would leave history behind and write something contemporary, or fantasy, or sf, because I know she's a terrific storyteller, and I want to be able to wrap the world of the story around me.
Anyway, here in this dikker are not only expressions you find in Dickens and Thackeray, etc, but explanations. Are they correct? Who knows, but it makes for insightful reading of how language was viewed in 1870.
Anyway, if you have a loose fiver, toss it their way!
I don't know if you've discovered this site, but it is amazing. Like, take a look on the left-hand side. Victorian slang! The main reason I can't read most steampunk is because they screw up the language so much that I can't get into their world. Like Gail Carriger, in the latest one, which I opened and glanced at a page. Someone snobby accused someone else of being declasse. No! They would not have said that then! Using declasse was declasse! They would have said 'vulgar.'So I get popped right out of the story and back into my reading chair. How I wish she would leave history behind and write something contemporary, or fantasy, or sf, because I know she's a terrific storyteller, and I want to be able to wrap the world of the story around me.
Anyway, here in this dikker are not only expressions you find in Dickens and Thackeray, etc, but explanations. Are they correct? Who knows, but it makes for insightful reading of how language was viewed in 1870.
Anyway, if you have a loose fiver, toss it their way!