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Oh God, a British character's just done that thing Americans do of referring to someone as "Sir [Surname]". How can a book research its history so thoroughly but get such basic stuff wrong?
— Sep 06, 2017 09:47AM
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It's a pity that this book's evident attention to detail in the historical setting didn't extend to the language. The Victorian diction is very inconsistent, veering (in the chapter I've just read) from "Adam's spawn" meaning "people" -- absurdly poetical in any century, surely -- to jarringly modern idioms like "risk averse" and "one-year anniversary". This is setting my teeth on edge a bit.
— Sep 01, 2017 06:02AM
