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RE: Day 714: 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: law and order
Yep, that is the famous Southern drawl... two variations of it. You have the common citizen version and you have the higher-class version spoken by Captain Lee, since I have grafted him into a family that LITERALLY has been high-class in the English-speaking world since the time of Richard the Lionhearted (so, around 1,000 years!).
Here's the other thing about the Southern drawl ... it is SLOW, so read it again, and imagine the citizen coming up saying what he said slowly, giving time for Captain Lee's fury to go absolutely through the roof, and THEN imagine Captain Lee picking out each and uttering every devastating word even more slowly, just melting the bigot down over a slow, high heat...
Thank you. I will have to try.
Although, Richard the Lionhearted, being of French descent, probably didn't speak English very well. More so in his entire life, he spent in the British Isle not more than a year. )))
True ... all I'm saying is that the Leas, later known as the Lees, were speaking whatever variation of English there was all the way back then...
Got it, got it. Way before Shakespeare. What a monumental task you've mounted before me... )))
Just kidding. I think I will get used to it eventually. Thank you!