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omg this starts with an absolutely needless crash course in the phonetics, onomastics, morphology and pragmatics of the fictional language. If I don't end up loving this I will be so disappointed

oh they have population-wise health statistics now! Perhaps a tad ambitious

Tennis, polo, and a seemingly modern understanding of sports, powerful aristocrats sending their kids to boarding schools when everything suggests pre-revolutionary France - the trouble is in so many little details a modern understanding of everything is pushed, which really undermines all of the historical inspiration. Why even bother not having computers and social media at this point

given my basic historical knowledge I struggle to find parts of this world believable: why did the (presumably absolute) monarch they depose allow free press? Also how would Tamas know what a police state is, given that this concept is unlikely to have emerged in the kind of societies that are described here

j'ai l'impression que c'est mal traduit en français mais c'est aussi super mal écrit. Là un adulte vient de dire qu'il n'avait pas entendu depuis son enfnace le nom de la VILLE SAINTE de la seule religion mentionnée depuis le début du livre

classic medieval fantasy mistake: people tend to believe their own religion!!!

what many of these endnotes are teaching me is that I have missed the great opportunity to be Vita Sackville-West

je vais finir (sunk cost fallacy)

the rest of s1 is gonna be so good

allez je dois être insupp faut se rafraîchir la mémoire

c'est trop trop bien

I wonder if we're gonna get an in-text explanation for the fact that like half the population of Hell they meet is a former faculty or student at Cambridge like the Doctor when he always lands on Earth in London

there's a paragraph on this page that is basically "Have you seen this hat? It's weird, I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in"

"inexistent healthcare" in Cambridge??? listen you American keep this nonsense on the other side of the pond and pay the annoying immigration health surcharge like the rest of us

coincidentally I was reading linguistics research on game theory this very week, which has given me what I needed to understand what was happening before it was infodumped on me

I feel like if you info dump on me like these last two pages I shouldn't have to go on wikipedia to check the things you namedropped but were too lazy to infodump on, commit!!!

one thing that is so clear is that RF Kuang spends sooooooooo much time on twitter looking at that Neil Renic account and these other academic jokes ones.

Also, on the one hand I get it academic culture is pretty bad and all but its depiction is a bit cartoonishly unsubtle and definitely cartoonishly American. On the other hand this is fun

pages since last ouin ouin ouin j'ai fait Cambridge ouin ouin c'était dur: 0

non-zero chance the Tolkien estate could dislike this use of Lembas bread

already on page 2 you can tell this is fantasy by the way this British University is organised in North American fashion with US terminology not in use this side of the pond (nobody wanted to dance with me when I was in high school)