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Holy shit Early Riser has a sort of group of people who are all disgraced English noblemen who were forced out to Wales but clung to their obsolete titles and their way of life, including kidnapping people to be their servants, and they’re called Villains this is hilarious

#malky reads #early riser #they also speak English while the main characters don’t #I’m gonna guess the main characters are speaking welsh considering the setting #it’s interesting the way fforde distinguishes the way they talk #the villains speak in an exaggeratedly ‘snooty British’ way #(literally he called English ‘the tongue of a civilized race’ lol)#and when the main character speaks English in turn #it’s a lot simpler than the villains’ speech and there are minor grammar errors here and there #‘you and we’ for example #that’s fun. it reminds me one reason I enjoyed jasper fforde was because of some of this thinking through

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