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=== Chapter the First: [[In Which a Trope Is Described]] ===

Ladies and Gentlemen, I perceive that you are all familiar with the language construct of which I endeavor to speak! It is the phenomenon among tele-visual programmes set in the 1850-1930 era to portray those of the time frame as being flummoxed with the concept of abbreviations! As though it never occurred to these buffoons that saying "tele-visual device" is bulky whilst they converse over their electro-magnetic tele-phonic transmitters!

 

 

This is especially note-worthy since those works which actually come to us from the time-frame in question do not display such vocabulary oddities.

In defense of what may appear to be an utterly scandalous trope, many publications of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries after the birth of our Lord, the Christ, may seem to follow this pattern. Peruse the writings of Messrs. Hume, Locke, Smith, and the several founders of the United States (or perchance simply the Constitution what they wrote), amongst others! Translators of writers from the European Continent will at times feel an inexplicable and irresistible urge to translate the works of those who lived contemporaneously with these noble thinkers in the same manner. This may indeed be [[Justified Trope|justifiable]] and entirely in the way of God's Natural Reason, for the manner of writing prevalent in Germany and France did indeed tend towards the same patterns as their brethren across the English Channel and the vast Atlantic Ocean (which your time for reasons incomprehensible and unfathomable to the speakers of our time have termed a "pond") and translation in the same style could be what this inter-communicative data-sets have termed a "[[Translation Convention]]." Read Rousseau, Kant, Voltaire, and Goethe at one's own risk.

 

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=== Chapter the Second: In Which Examples Are Expounded: ===

** Herewith a small (yet representative) sample: "Now I went forward for a space, and took heed not to look backwards; but to be strong of heart and spirit; for that which did lie before me had need of all my manhood and courage of soul, that I come to the succour of that Maid afar in the darkness of the World, or meet my death proper, as it might need to be."

** It's all like that. And there are a ''lot'' of pages...

** This is further perpetuated, and I should declare distinctly aggravated, by the many [[Department of Redundancy Department|aspiring hopefuls]] who [[Follow the Leader|indulge in mimicry]] of the aforementioned Monsieur Lovecraft, further removing said style from the rightful antiquity it should call home.

** And it is worth noting that Lovecraft himself was influenced by Lord Dunsany (see below). [[Screw That Neener Neener|(No, I'm not going to play along and talk like the rest of them.)]]

* French televisual Broad-cast ''[[Nicolas Le Floch]]'' chronicles the Adventures of the eponymous Police-man at the court of Louis XV. Although its Stories are somewhat [[Cop Show|common]], 'tis a peculiarly delightful Show, thanks to the old-fashion'd linguistick Affectations of the Characters.

* ''[[Dead Gorgeous (TV)|Dead Gorgeous]]'' is Antipodean televisual production, chronicling the adventures of a trio of sisters who shuffled off the mortal coil in the year of our lord 1860. One hundred and fifty years later, the siblings are permitted to return to Earth as ghosts to attend the boarding school that now occupies the structure that was once their family home. Much comedy is dervived from the juxtaposition of extremely formal - and, indeed, antiquated - speech patterns of the ghostly triad with the far more colloquial utterances of their modern day schoolmates.

* Almost entirely absent in ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'', where the characters use the occasional antiquated word if a modern one was not in common use.

 

* The first paragraph of the inter-network's parody encyclopedia, Uncyclopedia, has composed an article on [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens Charles Dickens], and is written in such a manner so as to distinctly resemble the famous author's prosery.

** Scholars of the movable-type printing press's productions have made extensive notations on the indisputable fact that the srivener known as Mr. Charles Dickens repeatedly indulged himself with such precision and verbosity in no minuscule division for the purpose of receiving a heightened salary, as the gentleman in question had renumeration distributed upon him based on the vast quantity of verbiage utilized in each of Mr. Dickens' literary endeavors.

* Despite its typically vulgar nature, the inter-net colloquially referred to as "[[Image Boards|4Chan]]" occasionally has well-versed discussions amongst those visiting it on matters ranging humourously amongst whatever seems to suit their respective fancies - be it weaponry, foreign culture, or simple [[Sophisticated As Hell|pr0nz]]. The, "meme", as it is known, is typically called "verbose" or "gentleman".

* The titular gentlemen from the strange and oft unsettling series ''[[Salad Fingers]]'' is wont to speak in such linguistic styles.

** As did the mechanical gentleman Bender, when he decides to switch his voice to "King" mode.

* Stewart, that cherubic rapscallion from ''[[Family Guy|The Gentleman of the Family]]'', is wont to indulge in this.