Harten - Ch. 9 - Rizrett

[NarlepoaxIII]

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.

 

[Wizardrone]

thanks for chapter

once they intentionally mess with Harten they will be done for rather quickly

 

[AnonymousContributor]

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.

 

[NarlepoaxIII]

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.

 

[fujihiro]

HE SAID THE FUCKING THING
HOLY SHIT

 

[Jstar338]

"I might be cooked" GTFO with that shit

 

[AnonymousContributor]

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.

 

[NarlepoaxIII]

Oh I thought you meant in term usage, knowyourmeme shows that it was being used in 2009.

I was in high school in 2009, and no it wasn't.

 

[AnonymousContributor]

I was in high school in 2009, and no it wasn't.

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

 

[NarlepoaxIII]

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.