Re: OT: art and language and THE DAVINCI CODE

Hi!

BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
>...
> heart: if they bothered to make a point that Wallace spoke French and
> Latin, why not use actual Middle French, along with Middle English and
> Middle Scots?  And besides the English nobles ought to have been
> speaking Middle French too.  I actually lectured our kids on this
> while we were watching the movie!
HAHAHA!  Did they listen? :-)

And in Japanese movies from, say, 1700, they ought to speak older
Japanese, too.  The only thing they do in anime is to have the samurai
use the copula 'de gozaruyo'. :-) ('Samurai Fiction' is in my mind
(not an anime).)

But fortunately (not really), I don't understand Japanese, so I don't
bother too much.  OTOH, because I have to read subtitles, I would be
even pleased to know that the Japanese is old and would never be
*bothered* that it is.

**Henrik