the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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what is it about the worst to read, parse, & imitate forms of writing in what can still be called 'modern' english that possesses internet assholes to think it can in some way prove seductive?
by all means it can be -funny- to adapt an horrifically out-of-date patois, for a joke, but these people seem to believe that sounding like a fucking highwayman would in any way endear them to, anyone? like people are still casually reading Thackery and just waiting for someone to come along talking in that dialect?
and what's worse, it's an imagined version of it, a modernized, bizarre way of speaking that'd be fit for a disney film trying to wring the style without challenging an audience of children. a real 18th century book (or gentlesir) does not say "melanated". they say a slur.
I think it's the inauthenticity of it that annoys me the most. A guy would refer to himself as a gentleman, not a sir. That's just stupid. What are you, a baronet or something?