Post by Dabeagle on Oct 16, 2023 14:44:10 GMT -5
Language is a funny thing, especially a living language like English. Slang is constantly changing, and yet some words stick around longer than others - like the term 'cool'. Kids today have, as they always have, their own language that identifies you as part of their tribe. Rizz (charisma), Zesty/Fruity/Sus are all euphemisms for seeming to be gay. YOLO, though falling out of fashion, for You Only Live Once. You get the idea.
Corydon is written as two people having an adversarial conversation about homosexuality and whether it's natural and what, if any, place it has. One of the major problems with it is the language of the day, not to mention sentence structure. The term uranist is used, and while your first thought might be someone that urinates on another or has some function with urine, it's an outdated term for a homosexual. Ideas of the day from Darwin and others are used in arguments in language that, while readable, is very slow to be understood due to the style of the sentence structure and word choices.
I don't often put a book down, but I did this one.
