Normal people vs. Victorian writers

"He spoke of the weather" was too funny

And its awesome

"He spoke of the weather"; Such powerful statement

Thats why i love reading old books. Medieval writers were way too good with literature. I dont think there is any modern writers who can write in such a way.

Exactly me adding all the vocabulary from childhood I learnt for the English exam ..!!

Jk be like:

I must have met this person.

Normal people vs Shashi tharoor 😅

They were literary craftsmen and women. Wordsmiths of the highest order.

I remember how I was given official feedback to stop writing "flowery" like a victorian writer and I still have that grudge to this day.

As a person who read war of the worlds i confirm that this is how they spoke

Literally how I speak.

Paid by the word 😂. Well done!

Me describing a Raccoon: it was beyond beautiful prettier than the greatest sunset, it's fur felt like the softest sands of a beach, he smelled of something like roses and peaches, the Raccoon was so mild tempered as well

I encountered a gentleman of middling stature; his countenance bore the mark of mediocrity.

I like shaving potatoes 🪒 🥔

This is kinda how creative writing works. You’re supposed to paint a picture with words. Even The Stranger does this and it’s intentionally written with blunt words

Normal people vs fyodor dostoevsky

How english teachers expect us to write our essays:

Online trollz: bro walked up on me ahhh face

Using English to describe things rather than using rudimentary grunts? How we have dumbed down…

Victoria writers : He was this and that etc...
Normal people: meh

He spoke of the weather

Honestly, the English of Victorian writers is immaculate ❤

As someone who reads a lot of Charles Dickens, this is so accurate I would actually believe it's an actual excerpt from a real Victorian-era novel

Or in the case of Thomas Hardy, another four pages of flowery prose telling you basically nothing.

Victorian style of writing rocks, imho. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

If there's one thing the modern world knows, its good art. Good writing. Why, we've made incredible Superhero movies, LOTS of superhero movies....Powerful hard hitting feminist think-pieces like Barbie... Produced beautiful music like pineapple pen, pound town, WAP, gagnam style... People of the past had no idea what they were doing lol. Thank God we live in an artistic golden age.

These days, normal people should count their lucky stars for something average.

More like hungry copywriters

That’s really sad that the average adult American has the literary intelligence of a seven-year-old. 😢

I just broke my back and my shoulders are permanently with weakness...I'm triggered

👍👍 Damn skippitty. Typically, I avoid reading any novel written after 1950.

At least now I deeply understand what it means to be average in Queen Vicky's time now

When you get paid by the word.

Well they certainly paint the picture lol

Once I had met a man of no renown
His face was ordinary and so plain
On his head, there was neither hat nor crown
Countenance had brought neither joy nor pain

No more of an impression than a boot
Left on the pavements on dry summer’s day
He had worn a standard and mundane suit
Dare I say, I found more color in gray

His speech was mild and spoke of the weather
Nothing else worth of any interest
Only thing close was his fear of thunder
But even that just made him like the rest

He is an average man and nothing more
Spend any time and he’s certain to bore

How must you ridicule him for naught when you shan't ever be graced to possess the pleasure of a response kinder than putting you off on the subject at hand? If ever so you chance a thought quite polite with your meagre mind, then still a farce would prove more significant in announcing it's own than is your cause

Show, don’t tell.

Now I know my dad has Victorian origin.
He talked something like this, when he left us to get the bread

So calming

BUT HISTORY WILL CALL THEM-

Okay but to be fair, the ridiculous padding makes the sentence funnier. I know that "he spoke of the weather" wouldn't have hit so hard without the whole schpiel before it

No offense, but no writers write like real people

I can't judge the victorian writers because I'm literally the same, I can write and write pages of literally nothing happening

Can somebody translate second?

Bring back victorian talk

That's why we dont have good writers today

It was when the English language had English culture behind it, and had not yet been polluted by the bastardisation of Americanisation.

His character left no more of an impression upon my mind than that of which my boot makes upon the pavement