I listen to the lengthy lectures on #RegencyFiction from The Relative so that you do not have to.
Yesterday, I got the one about how American authors think that English people used "Fall" instead of "Autumn" in the early 19th century …
… because the word was included in Samuel Johnson's dictionary from the previous century.
We didn't.
But "Fall" is not, however, an "Americanism". It was a perfectly cromulent 16th century English word for the season until "Autumn" took over.
Seems a bit strappy for 1811, even for a 16-year-old trying to do xyr own thing.
And the bare arms on #PrideAndPrejudice don't seem right, either.
The moon (sic!) of Mars on the #EdgarRiceBurroughs reprints is hugely wrong, too. It is not just the #RegencyFiction that is suffering, here. But astronomically unfeasible moons are, alas, a common #SciFi cover art error.
The #RegencyFiction people are probably rolling their eyes at the fact that the people who get their reviews into print never seem to spot stuff, and the more thorough critiques languish in places like terrible Meta-owned social media groups.
How would you have reviewed this book?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lady%27s_Guide_to_Fortune-Hunting
@tbortels @davidleeholcomb @cstross
All of that said, there are some particular scenarios for the #SciFi writer that also have to be addressed.
What if the character is speaking in a future version of English that has (Hello, Firefly!) adopted loads of Chinese loanwords? What if the loanword is from some non-human language?
As a reader, I don't see the need for such; but it's certainly a broader question for a Sci-Fi writer than for (say) a #RegencyFiction writer.
The critics of U.S.A.-written #RegencyFiction should be aware that it isn't special. U.S.A. authors don't even get U.S.A. history right.
The #USTelly series #TheAlienist, set in 1896 New York, just quoted (series 1 episode 2) a dictum in the particular formulation that was pioneered by Admiral Grace Hopper, who wouldn't even be born until 1906.
And there's no evidence that "typewriter" was ever the name of the profession, as one character described another.
The First Rule applies.
Ich würde gern dieses Foto der (im Handel längst nicht mehr erhältlichen) deutschen Erstausgaben von Julia Quinns Romanen (z. B. für die Wikipedia-Artikel „Julia Quinn“ und „Bridgerton (Romanreihe)“) in das Mediendatei-Repositorium Wikimedia-Commons hochladen, möchte dabei jedoch nicht gegen die Urheberrechtsregeln verstoßen. Wie lautet die Einschätzung der Expert:innen unter euch: Wäre das Hochladen OK oder nicht OK?
#Bridgerton #Erstausgabe #JuliaQuinn #RegencyFiction #Urheberrecht #Wikimedia
I've not seen @bobmockford nor @BjornIdle post angry opinions, so it might be worth starting from them.
Alas, some of the people I follow are currently angry. Although one is currently angered by a stupid mis-spelling in a #RegencyFiction novel, rather than (say) world politics. And another has just suffered a major house flood caused by a plumbing failure.
And a third is angered by the smell on the bus to the pub. (-:
JdeBP
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