Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4536066-20140428041456/@comment-4536066-20140428172100

Letx wrote:

- When people use modern day sort of phrases. Haha, I absolutely do this. Yesterday, my vampyre said more or less, "Holla holla! What's up, you called the 5-0 up in here?" (She's in the watch.)

But maybe I should explain why, hehe. In acting, when an english-language movie is set in, say, India, where they would realistically be speaking a completely non-english language, the standard treatment is to speak english traditionally and with no foreign/indian accent.(I.E. they aren't speaking hindi with an accent, so in the translation they don't speak english with an accent.) The audience just understands that the scene would actually be in, say, Hindi, if this were the real world, but is in english for the sake of the movie.

Now, I don't know old english slang and we're not speaking old english anyway and if I did use old english slang the odds are nobody would know what the hell I was saying. So, instead, of trying to mess with that, what I do for characters who would use slang is I use contemporary slang, and I use it just on the understanding that those aren't the literal words she would use. Rather, they're substituting for whatever the appropriately archaic medieval-Gielinor slang might be and I'm only using contemporary for ease of understanding.