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revdorothyl at 03:33pm on 15/10/2013
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Some weeks, I get a good chuckle out of "Sleepy Hollow" . . . when they stay far, far away from anything I've ever actually studied seriously.
Sometimes, they even seem to learn from their early mistakes -- for instance I've noticed that they've been careful to say "Revelation" when speaking of the last book of the New Testament instead of the incorrect "Revelations" after that first, teeth-grinding episode.
But just when I thought it was safe to sit back and enjoy the silliness, an episode comes along like last night's, where suddenly they think that people in the 1580's were still speaking MIDDLE ENGLISH instead of Elizabethan English (think closer to SHAKESPEARE, people, not CHAUCER -- you're at least a hundred years too late for Middle English as common speech!). Ack!
*Grrr*
How you task me, you silly show, you! :(
Sometimes, they even seem to learn from their early mistakes -- for instance I've noticed that they've been careful to say "Revelation" when speaking of the last book of the New Testament instead of the incorrect "Revelations" after that first, teeth-grinding episode.
But just when I thought it was safe to sit back and enjoy the silliness, an episode comes along like last night's, where suddenly they think that people in the 1580's were still speaking MIDDLE ENGLISH instead of Elizabethan English (think closer to SHAKESPEARE, people, not CHAUCER -- you're at least a hundred years too late for Middle English as common speech!). Ack!
*Grrr*
How you task me, you silly show, you! :(
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What I do enjoy at times is the character stuff (Ichabod and the Mills sisters, and especially Abby), and the 'man out of time' comments that can be very witty or amusing at times (like a week ago, when the episode opened with what turned out to be Ichabod reducing the Northstar/Onstar operator to romantic tears as he told her his tale and urged her to keep hope alive for genuine love).
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How else do you have the settlers of the lost colony of Roanoke from the 1580s speaking Chaucerian Middle English from nearly two hundred years earlier?
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