Comments on: Review of Timesplash by Graham Storrs

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:43:44 +0000

Thanks for that information Graham. I did not make the connection between the jumps to the second half of the 20th century and the jargon. I can remember reading that the furtherest they had jumped back was about the sixties. In the novel there are only two jumps, one back to 9010's and the first one back to…? Can't remember – but probably the sixties. Yes, I did notice that all their slang did come from that era, not sure if Jay's and Sandra's did, and that was part of my original quibble that I did not elaborate on in the review.

By: graywave

graywave — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:49:48 +0000

Graham, that was absolutely deliberate. Much of the spalshparty sub-culture is based on the 2nd half of the 20th Century – the target for all their timesplashes. You may also have noticed that all the nicknames people used as well as their slang came from the same period.

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:05:22 +0000

I was perhaps a bit lazy in the way I said it, but some of the terms they used like "Man" as in hey man what are you up to, which I think the bricks used. And "cool" – just some of the terminology they used was sixties, seventies, eighties etc.

By: graywave

graywave — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:04:08 +0000

Graham, thanks for this. It was very kind of you, and I'm very glad you liked it.

Maybe your thing about the dialogue was something to do with the way English middle-class folk speak? I'm pretty sure the Aussie impression of English diction is something like the American impression of Canadian speech. 😉 Or I might just have got it wrong. Stranger things have happened!