Wednesday 27 June 2012

Sixties English


Just a link today to this fascinating article in The Atlantic on how people spoke in the sixties versus the dialogue in Mad Men. The chap writing it has used a computer program to compare the scripts to actual example of sixties dialogue. I particularly like his observation that, back then, people said "ought to" much more than "need to". They were less necessary times.

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