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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6562055" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>It probably shouldn't be surprising that the informality, vagueness, and terseness of an exclamation like, "Cool.", might not have easy counterparts in older cultures where informality and terseness were considered to be in very poor taste. </p><p></p><p>"Cool" covers a lot of ground, from assent, to affirmation, to expressions of delight. Most of the terse equivalents are probably vulgar in one form or another. It's quite possible that given the normal formality of earlier English, the word "Yes" itself is the nearest equivalent. A barren yes, undecorated, is a bit indecorous. But if intensifiers are needed, it can easily be appended with oaths, as in "Yes, by God!" or a perhaps politer and less stern but equally emphatic, "Faith, yes!" But I suspect that it would be considered a bit childish to be so readily transported, and a more mature mode of assent would be expected normally.</p><p></p><p>As for the problem of making everyone who is expressing delight, affirmation, and consent sound like a snooty member of the upper class, I think you can solve this by making the expressions in a vulgar mode whenever you want to show that the person is low born. "That suiteth me like willing strumpet. Lead on to the devilment.", says much the same thing as, "That is agreeable. I shall be pleased to accompany you, my good man." but is of I think a markedly different character.</p><p></p><p>I think also that for most of your examples, the older idiom would be more clearly one of submission. A person answering in the affirmative would generally be making it clear that they were conforming their will to someone else's, or granting their blessing and authority to some enterprise. Remember unlike the modern society, this is a society were everyone has a rank and a position and upholding the social order means continually acknowledging that there is an order. There would be a lot of rank indicating speech. So, "Cool, my lord." would be expressing an ideal like, "I obey with a glad heart" and "Cool, my servant." would be more in the context of, "Make it so." The sort of expressions you get out of this would be like, "With a good will." and "Gladly, my lord." or "Let it be just as you have said."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6562055, member: 4937"] It probably shouldn't be surprising that the informality, vagueness, and terseness of an exclamation like, "Cool.", might not have easy counterparts in older cultures where informality and terseness were considered to be in very poor taste. "Cool" covers a lot of ground, from assent, to affirmation, to expressions of delight. Most of the terse equivalents are probably vulgar in one form or another. It's quite possible that given the normal formality of earlier English, the word "Yes" itself is the nearest equivalent. A barren yes, undecorated, is a bit indecorous. But if intensifiers are needed, it can easily be appended with oaths, as in "Yes, by God!" or a perhaps politer and less stern but equally emphatic, "Faith, yes!" But I suspect that it would be considered a bit childish to be so readily transported, and a more mature mode of assent would be expected normally. As for the problem of making everyone who is expressing delight, affirmation, and consent sound like a snooty member of the upper class, I think you can solve this by making the expressions in a vulgar mode whenever you want to show that the person is low born. "That suiteth me like willing strumpet. Lead on to the devilment.", says much the same thing as, "That is agreeable. I shall be pleased to accompany you, my good man." but is of I think a markedly different character. I think also that for most of your examples, the older idiom would be more clearly one of submission. A person answering in the affirmative would generally be making it clear that they were conforming their will to someone else's, or granting their blessing and authority to some enterprise. Remember unlike the modern society, this is a society were everyone has a rank and a position and upholding the social order means continually acknowledging that there is an order. There would be a lot of rank indicating speech. So, "Cool, my lord." would be expressing an ideal like, "I obey with a glad heart" and "Cool, my servant." would be more in the context of, "Make it so." The sort of expressions you get out of this would be like, "With a good will." and "Gladly, my lord." or "Let it be just as you have said." [/QUOTE]
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