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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: LoneClone who wrote (23602)10/26/2006 11:20:44 PM
From: E. Charters   of 78418
 
Seen a few episodes, namely wild bill. purports to be true to life. Well acted in general.

Actual dialogue of the old west, as we can discern form Harpers and the many newspapers of the day was very stilted, convoluted and formal resorting in mixed company to very modest reference. One could not even refer to the legs of a table in a Victorian drawing room. This was the Victorian era. No doubt language of the camps and the trail was raw, and you would not see that in print anywhere. It is amusing to read the newspapers of the day, from Tombstone, Dodge and Virginia city. A parallel can be seen in the language of the miners of the 90's. They are actually quite literate. A real eye opener is to read the letters of the soldiers of the revolutionary and civil wars. They had a very high standard of expression. I judge that literature to be far superior to what we see written in general from soldiers of the WWII.

If the language of soldiers, which in my family I am privy to for several generations going back to the first world war, was any indication, it would generally peel the paint off a barn door of an old bucket. The fist letter in the marine dictionary as we know is effin A.

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