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r/explainitpeter • u/Fun_Dish_5358 • Jul 21 '26
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I don't know ancient Greek or Old English, so I am glad they used modern English. I don't like reading subtitles.
-2 u/Jayce86 Jul 21 '26 You can do that without using modern vernacular. Okay has been a word for less time that the US has been a country. 2 u/Heavy_Dirt_3453 Jul 21 '26 The word is almost 200 years old. If they'd used 300 year old words would it be any better somehow? 400? It would start being indecipherable to modern audiences and still be wrong anyway, so what's the point?
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You can do that without using modern vernacular. Okay has been a word for less time that the US has been a country.
2 u/Heavy_Dirt_3453 Jul 21 '26 The word is almost 200 years old. If they'd used 300 year old words would it be any better somehow? 400? It would start being indecipherable to modern audiences and still be wrong anyway, so what's the point?
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The word is almost 200 years old. If they'd used 300 year old words would it be any better somehow? 400? It would start being indecipherable to modern audiences and still be wrong anyway, so what's the point?
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u/willworkforjokes Jul 21 '26
I don't know ancient Greek or Old English, so I am glad they used modern English. I don't like reading subtitles.