Speaking Tudor - Unknown
(Recap) Amazing News! Modern science has developed the ability to bring people from the past to our time. It's a huge secret, of course, but I have discovered the method and brought four characters from HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER to 2010. In the coming weeks, you'll hear what they have to say about our time, their time, the best of times, and the worst of times.
"I find your time interesting, particularly in language. What a lot of it you use! Words to me should be weighed and chosen carefully, but in 2010, everyone speaks, writes, and even 'tweets' with very little thought. When one reads what some vomit onto this thing you call the Internet, one wonders. Is there no such thing as proper English these days? Even your newscasters have declining abilities, it seems, those at the top being tolerably conversant with their mother tongue but some below them lacking even a basic knowledge of syntax and usage.
If I were to stay here for any length of time, which I do not plan to do, I would make it my mission to point out such faults. How can a person think adequately if he cannot put his words into comprehensible expression?"
"I find your time interesting, particularly in language. What a lot of it you use! Words to me should be weighed and chosen carefully, but in 2010, everyone speaks, writes, and even 'tweets' with very little thought. When one reads what some vomit onto this thing you call the Internet, one wonders. Is there no such thing as proper English these days? Even your newscasters have declining abilities, it seems, those at the top being tolerably conversant with their mother tongue but some below them lacking even a basic knowledge of syntax and usage.
If I were to stay here for any length of time, which I do not plan to do, I would make it my mission to point out such faults. How can a person think adequately if he cannot put his words into comprehensible expression?"
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