Proper Britannian (Elizabethan as a Second Language) Pray Pardon and Gramercy ( or Please and Thank You - Minding your P's and Q's ) Elizabethan (and so Britannian) is more than just throwing around some thees and thous or hails and fare thee wells.
There are many terms that are no longer used in modern society that were commonplace in Elizabethan society. These terms are referred to by modern linguists as "Archaic". Granted we may call an IBM 486 computer "archaic" and in that sense it's a bad thing but if you want to speak the speech of Elizabethans or Britannians then Archaic is definitely"in". Some of these terms are already widely used by players in UO. Archaic Terms and Phrases Lesson Three Let's take a look at the example I gave at the end of Lesson Two: " Thou didst flamestrike the gazer well, Good Mistress Aine, way cool ! " I'm sorry, this just does not work! There are; however, some modern words that can be used.
Appending some descriptive term after Yea makes a nice touch. Lord Termir: "Hast thou seen the Mistress Lilac? " Elizabethan Oaths, Curses, and Insults. Enerate your own insult!
Verily, thou art naught but a fobbing milk-livered dewberry! Ind yourself tempted to say that effin word too often? Modern english is unimaginative when it comes to expletives, contenting itself with a paucity of four-letter equivalents for the range of human distress. This is due in part to television, which favors the quick over the skillful, and likewise to the accelerated requirements of modern life; a passing car permits no more than a few syllables and a gesture. Some television humor runs counter-current thanks to the to-the-letter FCC restriction on certain dirty words.
Five hundred years ago, little in life moved more quickly than a trotting horse. For the faire worker, this freedom allows you to be not only period-correct, but to avoid the angry eye of parents with children. The common equivalent of disgust is fie (f-eye) . Aths are an affirmation of truth made upon some object of untarnished purity. Urses are an expression of desired harm. Examples. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Elizabethan DICTIONARY - Elizabethan words and meanings. Elizabethan Slang. Terms and Slang -- Lower Class and Underworld Notes: c = Cant A-swame Fainting Abject To cast out.
To reject. Abram, Abraham (c) a lunatic or mad; naked. Abram-man, Abraham-man (c) a category of vagrant who excited sympathy or fear in onlookers by feigning madness. Social Status Action-taking, Arrant, Barber-monger, Base, Beggarly, Caitiff, Churl, Churlish, Coistril, Cullionly, Eater of broken meats, Finical, Glass-gazing, Hundred-pound, Knave, Knavish, Lily-livered, One-trunk-inheriting, Peasant, Proud, Rascal, Rascally, Rogue, Roguish, Ruffian, Ruffianly, Shallow, Slave, Super-serviceable, Three-suited, Varlet, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Whoreson, Worsted-stocking, Wretch, Wretched...
Curses Mild: Go to ------, Beshrew thee, Fie upon thee Strong: A pox upon thee/Upon thy -----, Devil take thee, Out on thee -----, i' thy face/teeth/throat, A plague upon thee/Upon thy -----, Morraine Seize thee, Hang thee Oaths. Www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1031/terms.pdf.