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Writing AH: Anachronisms Part 4. The 3000 year old car.

How's this for a 3000-year-old car? According to Battlestar Galactica, humans will be driving Citroën DS in the far future (or were driving them in the distant past).

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'What does this word mean?'

'It means 'thing that makes you go faster without needing to use your legs'
 
I really ought to do a piece on my own blog and/or here about how I handle anachronisms and fictional slang in my own AH. Some are things like using the term "Vatnik" a bit anachronistically to refer to a Russian hick, and some are things like having "Unitism" being the boogeyman-semi ideology only used by opponents the way "Globalism" and "Cultural Marxism" are IOTL.
 
Coiler said:
I really ought to do a piece on my own blog and/or here about how I handle anachronisms and fictional slang in my own AH. Some are things like using the term "Vatnik" a bit anachronistically to refer to a Russian hick, and some are things like having "Unitism" being the boogeyman-semi ideology only used by opponents the way "Globalism" and "Cultural Marxism" are IOTL.
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That's more Alternate Terminology (which is another, related article series I've done in the past which you could write it under the tagline of), but yes, that'd be interesting to see.
 
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