[HN Gopher] Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (...
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       Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video]
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2022-09-24 23:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | davesque wrote:
       | I'm always completely fascinated by the change in language style
       | between now and then. They're speaking the same English; it's not
       | like a different dialect or anything. But the manner in which
       | words are strung together is completely different and rather
       | poetic sounding to my ears.
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       | These women were, of course, citizens of the 20th century. But I
       | assume they formed many of their speaking habits early in their
       | lives during the 19th century.
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6V1yHvJyo
        
       | LanceJones wrote:
       | "Mud brushing" their skirts for hours. Ah, the things we are
       | convinced to do from a social expectation standpoint. In terms of
       | what she saw on the streets of London -- mud and fog -- my
       | understanding is that London rarely sees fog, and that "fog" in
       | the 1890s was actually smog.
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | a large part of the "Mud" was almost certainly horse waste, one
         | of the same reasons why traditional new york brownstone
         | townhouses have their entrance up a set of stairs.
        
       | mistermann wrote:
       | Tangential, but this is a great channel by an old school amateur
       | film maker who posts lots of great old videos that you can't find
       | elsewhere, two of my favorites:
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       | Vietnam vet:
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       | https://youtu.be/tixOyiR8B-8
       | 
       | Mountain clog dancers:
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       | https://youtu.be/cs2j8f7H2WY
        
       | IndigoIncognito wrote:
       | The BBC Archives are great, including British Pathe
        
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