Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan
Just started John McWhorter's =Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue=. McWhorter's thesis is that English, nominally a Germanic langusge, has grammar and other structure shaped by Celtic and Cornish.
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Per the review: I don't mean that you should claim the story is true history, but to use some of the style of a history, with 'sidebars' (as leading chapter notes) to remind the reader of people and their last appearances, etc. As I envision these notes, they don't give any hint of the plot that is to follow, but only remind the reader.
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njc wrote:
Just started John McWhorter's =Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue=. McWhorter's thesis is that English, nominally a Germanic language, has grammar and other structure shaped by Celtic and Cornish.
That's very interesting. I'll have to look into it.
Most Insular Celtic languages are Verb-Subject-Object, so I tend to think of them as being grammatically different from English where we favor Subject-Verb-Object. I guess there are other similarities that I haven't thought of.
Thanks!
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njc wrote:
Per the review: I don't mean that you should claim the story is true history, but to use some of the style of a history, with 'sidebars' (as leading chapter notes) to remind the reader of people and their last appearances, etc. As I envision these notes, they don't give any hint of the plot that is to follow, but only remind the reader.
Ah! I see!
Copy style!
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The key is our use of auxilliary verbs, esp. 'do' and 'done'.
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Ah! I see!
I don't know.
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The reader should have to check the cover front matter, or acknowledgements to be sure it is fiction. (The Red Book of Westmarch)
