I always enjoy reading articles or seeing TV spots on movies that incorporate items from the wrong era in scenes. Some are pretty sophisticated, like hat styles, but some are glaringly obvious, like a Coke can (can you say product placement?!).
There are, however, many accents within England. Add in the rest of Great Britain, and there are many, many more. I always laugh when a US news channel interviews someone from Yorkshire (near my old stomping grounds), parts of Scotland, or a Cockney, and they use subtitles.
If I recall correctly from my colleage linguistics classes, the English accent went through a great divergence in the 18th century or so. So it's the English who have changed -- we Yanks still talk like we always have!
Fiercesome - I recall a good deal of lively discussion about all the swearing on DEADWOOD. It was unclear how realistic that was, because people were less likely to put that kind of thing in writing.
One of the more interesting observations was that people back then were more likely to blaspheme than swear. The foul language would have been about God -- today considered somewhat mild -- rather than bathroom functions and sex.
I think it's interesting, but of course it's hard to distinguish when writers are blundering from when writers are simply making a popular product intelligible to its audience. I can readily imagine viewers saying to themselves "What's 'contraband'?"
Personally, I appreciate accuracy, but I'm a pedant. I was overjoyed, for example, when the Fouding Fathers were given English accents in the TV mini-series John Adams. :D
I think, this kind of analyses has nothing in common with the Linguistics as a science and its target is to be noticed to make Linguistics popular may be. How can anyone percieve a language in a Mass Media product seriously?
Movie language and book language are different, and they can't be compared.So I don't think that this kind of research can be reliable.
I seem to recall a similar analysis done for Mad Men... and they found phrases like "I'll put you on hold" shouldn't be in that show b/c "hold" didn't exist for phones during the 60s.
It's pretty hard for writers to be historically accurate... and still make sense to the viewers!
Fascinating... too bad "Deadwood" isn't still on the air. I wonder if Benjamin could go back and analyze that show. In fact, the strange language in it (from what I heard) and the audience's inability to understand it or relate to it is what got the show cancelled.
How often does a person get to mention big-data, analytics, Downton Abbey, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, and Abraham Lincoln and the Zombies in a single blog post?
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
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Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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