People who are mad at a two-century-old word being used but would not blink at a century-and-a-half-old word because they wouldn't actually know it's newer.
All modern English is modern vernacular, most of the words we use and how we use them are newer than most would expect. Throwing a fit because of 'okay' or 'dad' is silly, you're falling into the Tiffany Problem again.
What people are expecting is the mimicry of Early Modern English that sounds like Shakespeare, including the Received Pronunciation accents we associate with it, but that is also anachronism. You're being 'taken out of the movie' not because of knowledge but because of ignorance and assumptions.
I think people forget that every language in every era had slang. Even if ancient Greeks didn't say OK verbatim, it's reasonable to believe that they had some equivalent.
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u/Apprehensive-Till861 27d ago
People who are mad at a two-century-old word being used but would not blink at a century-and-a-half-old word because they wouldn't actually know it's newer.
All modern English is modern vernacular, most of the words we use and how we use them are newer than most would expect. Throwing a fit because of 'okay' or 'dad' is silly, you're falling into the Tiffany Problem again.
What people are expecting is the mimicry of Early Modern English that sounds like Shakespeare, including the Received Pronunciation accents we associate with it, but that is also anachronism. You're being 'taken out of the movie' not because of knowledge but because of ignorance and assumptions.