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Hugos There Podcast #49: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis (feat. Rebecca Barry)

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What Do You Think of the Handling of Middle English and Latin?

i like that it's at least acknowledged that you couldn't just go back there and communicate with people easily. That's not how language works. I'm down to even the idea of a young woman travelling back there, and would she be literate, right? And so, you know, at some point she's kind of caught reading latin, and and that's, that's an event. Yes, i really appreciated the implication that when she uses latin, she's intelligible to the other people who know latin, but when she uses middle english, they can't understand her right away. Riht, i thought ttat was a great twist, yes. It

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