Harten - Ch. 9 - Rizrett

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i've been taken out of immersion in other stories with clothing choices and architecture that is too obviously past even the renaissance so this isn't anything new; just pray the story is good enough that this doesn't matter as much
That sort of stuff is pretty bad, but modern slang is worse. For me, at least.

I cringe when I see a peasant wearing Ye Olde T-shirte and Jeanes, but modern slang always kills immersion the fastest. One misplaced Zoomerism is enough to completely take me out of the story.
 
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That sort of stuff is pretty bad, but modern slang is worse. For me, at least.

I cringe when I see a peasant wearing Ye Olde T-shirte and Jeanes, but modern slang always kills immersion the fastest. One misplaced Zoomerism is enough to completely take me out of the story.
As stated earlier "cooked" is not actually "modern" slang unless everyone should be speaking renaissance english. Ernest Hemingway was NOT a time traveler as far as I know.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms/Chapter_21

And even in the modern era most zoomers were literally toddlers when the term first started being used in that sense.
 
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As stated earlier "cooked" is not actually "modern" slang unless everyone should be speaking renaissance english. Ernest Hemingway was NOT a time traveler as far as I know.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms/Chapter_21

And even in the modern era most zoomers were literally toddlers when the term first started being used in that sense.

And as I stated earlier, one line in a book does not make a term slang.

Slang is widespread. In common use. By definition.

If it's not a common phrase, it's not slang. "I'm cooked" was not a common phrase until a couple years ago, bro.

Literally. According to Google Trends, it wasn't a common phrase until the beginning of '24; and it didn't even get really popular until this year.

Cutoff for Gen Z was 2012, so even the youngest Zoomers were over twelve years old when this slang first took off.
 
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HE SAID THE FUCKING THING
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And as I stated earlier, one line in a book does not make a term slang.

Slang is widespread. In common use. By definition.

If it's not a common phrase, it's not slang. "I'm cooked" was not a common phrase until a couple years ago, bro.

Literally. According to Google Trends, it wasn't a common phrase until the beginning of '24; and it didn't even get really popular until this year.

Cutoff for Gen Z was 2012, so even the youngest Zoomers were over twelve years old when this slang first took off.
Oh I thought you meant in term usage, knowyourmeme shows that it was being used in 2009.
 
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https://x.com/VonGeez_/status/152607281706573824
https://x.com/BlueAndOrange/status/2172508867
the kym says early colloquial usage on twitter and the sources were a few tweets
"Getting cooked" is not the same phrase as "I'm cooked."

Nobody was saying "I think I'm cooked" until very recently.

But even so, it would still be extremely distracting to see someone in a medieval fantasy story say, "They're getting cooked," unless they meant it literally.
 
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I wonder what she hoped to achieve by visiting those bandits. It was clearly not going to end positively for her.
 
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Not really Harten's job to fix her problem for her. If he kills Rex here, the rest of the Rogue's guild will come after him. For the sake of convenience, let's say Harten can easily solo the guild. So, he goes and destroys the guild by himself. Congrats. The guild was most likely a necessary guild to help keep the monsters at bay and you just fucked up the city's chances of survival. Rizrett isn't even an acquaintance of his. So, there's no good reason for Harten to do more than he did.

As for Rex, if he's gonna go after Harten, then he also should be ready to bear the consequences of the results. Harten can easily kill him and his cronies, and Rex knows that. But since Harten is just a passerby and has shown that he's not really associated with Rizrett, there's no good reason or benefit for Rex to ever pick that fight with him. Whether Rex continues to go after the girl or not, it's still really not Harten's problem.

Harten has done all that a stranger should be expected of. He has given her a chance at survival when she had none. The next course of action is her responsibility, not his. If she's smart, she should quickly find someone to take care of the kid (like the church or something), and gtfo out of town asap or find protection from an organization while she has the chance.
exactly. he gave a personal reason for as to why he gave the assist aside from her saying “help”, they were making a mess in a public street so he has cause to quell the disturbance as someone with the power to do that. we know that harten is a charitable person so he would help regardless, but they don’t know that that. if they were smart they would take that as a sign that harten intervened on a fluke, steer clear of him as an unknown factor and not provoke him unnecessarily but it’s doubtful they’ll do that
 

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