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	<title>Comments on: Cover to Cover #320B: Reading the Writing</title>
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		<title>By: Arkle</title>
		<link>http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/31/cover-to-cover-320b/comment-page-1/#comment-429086</link>
		<dc:creator>Arkle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I actually liked A Knight&#039;s Tale. I think the reason the anachronistic language and music worked was cause the movie was intended to be a comedy, and, while Mike may disagree, I think the rules are looser for comedy. If it had been meant as a serious movie, I&#039;d totally see his point, but it wasn&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually liked A Knight&#8217;s Tale. I think the reason the anachronistic language and music worked was cause the movie was intended to be a comedy, and, while Mike may disagree, I think the rules are looser for comedy. If it had been meant as a serious movie, I&#8217;d totally see his point, but it wasn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Summer Brooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Summer Brooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bob: feel free to send an email to any or all of the people you want to talk to: mike@, summer@, stackpole@, brian@, lorrie@

Of course, tack on the dragonpage dot com part afterwards  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob: feel free to send an email to any or all of the people you want to talk to: mike@, summer@, stackpole@, brian@, lorrie@</p>
<p>Of course, tack on the dragonpage dot com part afterwards  <img src='http://www.dragonpage.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Liam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;does not violate any sense of logic or realism&quot; ...more than what has already been violated by simply writing in modern English in the first place, that is to say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;does not violate any sense of logic or realism&#8221; &#8230;more than what has already been violated by simply writing in modern English in the first place, that is to say.</p>
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		<title>By: Liam</title>
		<link>http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/07/31/cover-to-cover-320b/comment-page-1/#comment-426932</link>
		<dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mike, your comment about disliking &quot;A Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; is exactly the point I tried to make in my voicemail: The &quot;classical&quot; music we&#039;re used to for fantasy and medieval movies is as anachronistic as rock music. If a movie takes place circa 12th century the music better be religious madrigals if you want it to be appropriate to realism.

I agree with Stackpole that an author creating a world should create their own slang, absolutely!! But, to use some modern slang does not violate any sense of logic or realism--only personal expectations.
Take a look at any English text from 500AD to 1000AD--you won&#039;t be able to read it. (Beowulf in the original English is a good example).
Take any modern fantasy novel and select three sentences. Grab the nouns used and check them out in the Oxford English Dictionary. You&#039;ll find nearly all of them will have entered the English language since 1000AD from French, Latin, a little Norse, a tad of Greek, and a smidgeon of German. Now, if someone says &quot;hell&quot; in a novel you think they better have a hell in their mythos, does that mean if a character says &quot;house&quot; they should also have a Nordic nation in their world? If they say &quot;masonry&quot; they should have a 14th century France in their world? Why should the word &quot;sh-t&quot; be avoided any more if they don&#039;t have a 14th century Germany in their world?

No reason at all, logically, just subjective expectations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike, your comment about disliking &#8220;A Knight&#8217;s Tale&#8221; is exactly the point I tried to make in my voicemail: The &#8220;classical&#8221; music we&#8217;re used to for fantasy and medieval movies is as anachronistic as rock music. If a movie takes place circa 12th century the music better be religious madrigals if you want it to be appropriate to realism.</p>
<p>I agree with Stackpole that an author creating a world should create their own slang, absolutely!! But, to use some modern slang does not violate any sense of logic or realism&#8211;only personal expectations.<br />
Take a look at any English text from 500AD to 1000AD&#8211;you won&#8217;t be able to read it. (Beowulf in the original English is a good example).<br />
Take any modern fantasy novel and select three sentences. Grab the nouns used and check them out in the Oxford English Dictionary. You&#8217;ll find nearly all of them will have entered the English language since 1000AD from French, Latin, a little Norse, a tad of Greek, and a smidgeon of German. Now, if someone says &#8220;hell&#8221; in a novel you think they better have a hell in their mythos, does that mean if a character says &#8220;house&#8221; they should also have a Nordic nation in their world? If they say &#8220;masonry&#8221; they should have a 14th century France in their world? Why should the word &#8220;sh-t&#8221; be avoided any more if they don&#8217;t have a 14th century Germany in their world?</p>
<p>No reason at all, logically, just subjective expectations.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where do you find the email address for Cover to Cover?!?!?!?  I don&#039;t want to leave a voice mail, I just want to send an email, but where on your web site is the form and/or email address?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where do you find the email address for Cover to Cover?!?!?!?  I don&#8217;t want to leave a voice mail, I just want to send an email, but where on your web site is the form and/or email address?</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Mennega</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Mennega</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here ya go...
http://www.stormwolf.com/thesecrets/podcasts/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here ya go&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.stormwolf.com/thesecrets/podcasts/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stormwolf.com/thesecrets/podcasts/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>enjoy the podcast, especially when you give hints for writing and ask writers how they approach writing, such as do they outline, how they develop magic, etc. I would really like to read your Secrets to writing stuff, but can&#039;t find it. Where do I go for that?
thanks and keep up the good work</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>enjoy the podcast, especially when you give hints for writing and ask writers how they approach writing, such as do they outline, how they develop magic, etc. I would really like to read your Secrets to writing stuff, but can&#8217;t find it. Where do I go for that?<br />
thanks and keep up the good work</p>
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