![]() ![]() After all, even without an apocalypse, English has changed so much over the last 400 years that modern people find Shakespeare hard to follow, he said. A postapocalyptic English would likely be unintelligible to people today, Kroch said. ![]() Zachry's speech looks strange to readers, but it's not as strange as the future English language really might be. "A fat joocesome slice, nay, none o' your burnt wafery off'rin's …" "So gimme some mutton an' I'll tell you 'bout our first meetin'," he says. Zachry, one of the book's main characters, opens the section with a story about meeting the devil. In the novel's far future, most human knowledge has been destroyed or forgotten. įancier words for past, simpler words for future The depiction also reveals how Mitchell created a futuristic, exotic atmosphere while keeping things understandable for those of us following the action at home. The depiction of future language in "Cloud Atlas" illustrates some interesting points about language's evolution over time. "I think what he did was he picked up on some fairly obvious things and he invented some things that might happen and that would attract the reader's attention." "I actually thought that the author didn't do too bad a job," he said. ![]()
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