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Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
Does it bother anybody else that Victorians like to ejaculate when they speak?
If you go through the verbs found in Doyle and Wodehouse and also I think in Agatha Christie though she's not a contemporary of the other two, some of the verbs they use in place of "said" would cause a modern reader to go WTF? But apparently Victorians were perfectly fine with literary characters ejaculating speech. Nope nothing sexual about that at all 
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Re: Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
I love these ACD quotes, especially the one where someone is ejaculating out of a window. 
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Re: Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
I think they ejaculate in moments when they are quite excited and rather exclaim something than speak. So to say 
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Re: Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
Harriet wrote:
I think they ejaculate in moments when they are quite excited
Hm, I think I've read about that in fanfics too.
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Re: Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
I think they ejaculate in moments when they are quite excited
Hm, I think I've read about that in fanfics too.
Why did I know I would find this exact comment as soon as I read the thread title? 
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Re: Victorian verbs in Doyle texts
I think they ejaculate in moments when they are quite excited
Hm, I think I've read about that in fanfics too.
Why did I know I would find this exact comment as soon as I read the thread title?
Yes, it was kind of predictable. 
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