charlieischaos
please please i beg of u teach me how to speak shakespearean like gimme a rundown i got inspired by romeo and juliet to add it a bit more to my c.ai stuff (dyo so gives courtly lover) but idk exactly how it works and you’re a whole expert in it i always get reminded of ur stuff……
Prinx_Quail
@charlieischaos alagadda is a tough thing to write for for sure. It has SO many amazing opportunities for creativity though. It sounds like you're doing really well already! I hope that my advice helps just a bit! ^v^
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charlieischaos
@Prinx_Quail ty sososososo much i’ve recently gone from general scp fixation to alagadda specific and i only ever remember ur fics i had to check a few times to see if i was writing similarly, when reading r+j i just took words id seen in other things too that were basic pronouns/verbs (has, do, stuff like that) its kinda spooky tryna be accurate
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Prinx_Quail
@charlieischaos heyo! I have a few tips if you'd like them! Admittedly, when i first started using old english in my fics, I used an online 'english to Shakespearean' translator, then would remove the excessively silly words. After a little while though, i found an 'english to elizabethan' translator that worked FAR better (i still had to edit a lot) What i find is the most accurate is actually looking at a few short stories written in the elizabethan era and writing down a few rules and 'vocab words'. Make sure you DON'T grab anything written by Shakespeare. (He made up a lot of words and was writing plays purposely intended to resemble poems, so his writing isn't very period accurate), and you'll end up with something mostly accurate to the times that you can either simplify or complicate further as you wish!
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