anachronism?

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Mon Mar 13 15:37:24 UTC 2000


>From a review in my morning paper:

"[The playwright] stumbles only when she interjects late-20th-century
vernacular--Al confessing 'It was all getting to weird, I just had to get
out'--into a story set 50 years earlier."

The reviewer is asserting that "weird" could not have been used in this way
in the earlier 1940s. Surely this is incorrect?



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