July 26, 2010
#771: Period Speech explain
[A sword-wielding Cueball on a stage addresses three others; one has a spear, another a handgun and a knife, and the third a laptop.]
Cueball: Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties?
Actors: Ten-four!
[The caption below.]
A few centuries from now, all the English of the past 400 years will sound equally old-timey and interchangeable.