tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025295042007800999.post5361144731361087699..comments2023-10-19T22:33:59.885-07:00Comments on Historical Fiction Research: Contractions: We Use Them, Do We Not?Tinney Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18383946402836289511noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025295042007800999.post-8606780515614117502012-03-23T00:27:36.178-07:002012-03-23T00:27:36.178-07:00Well, true, though it doesn't exactly sound fr...Well, true, though it doesn't exactly sound friendly. I find a lot of good insults in legal records - quite a bit of "She said that, and then he said that, and then she said the other thing" while attempting to decide what, if anything, was actionable. (I don't have immediate access to my resources, so I may have to post examples later.)Tinney Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18383946402836289511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025295042007800999.post-50012603116659430002012-03-22T19:15:02.373-07:002012-03-22T19:15:02.373-07:00Here's another interesting challenge -- "...Here's another interesting challenge -- "bad" words and insults. I work primarily with Icelandic/Old Norse material. Either the newly-Christianized Icelanders who first transcribed the old oral material cleaned up the scatological material or Old Norse insults are very different than the English. The worst out-and-out insult I found was Hallgerda's remark to to Bergthora: "You have hangnails on every finger" in Burnt Njal's Saga. It's not a remark that would alert modern audiences grasp the depth of the hatred between the two women!Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02482985798002568274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025295042007800999.post-47010582396501822392012-02-28T16:18:39.145-08:002012-02-28T16:18:39.145-08:00While doing anthropological research on the Austra...While doing anthropological research on the Australian aborigines, I found a passage which stated that the aboriginals used contractions to an even greater extent than more "civilized" folk. (I'd quote the passage, but I can't find the book right now.) Since I read that nearly two decades ago, I've kept that well in mind as I write.Julia H. Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16203735853394408088noreply@blogger.com