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chortlingabacus t1_jdxf5j3 wrote

Reply to comment by Grindlebone in What are your thoughts on jargon in books? by [deleted]

'I would that I could draw back but found to my despair, and shamed though I was it to my secretest delight, that I was as firmly transfixed by the quivering of his sturdy flamberge as banquet goat is fixed on a spit. Reader, I fucked him.'

Sorry. '. . . goat is fixed on a spit. "I have heard tell of your undefeated flanchion," I sighed defiantly, "but perhaps your flamberge excels it." '

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Grindlebone t1_jdxo0w3 wrote

Delightful. What's a flanchion?

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chortlingabacus t1_jdz6jkn wrote

Thanks, but it's you deserves all the credit. (Though I must say I'm rather pleased with 'sighed defiantly'.)

I can tell you exactly what a flanchion is. It's a word on a wiki list of medieval swords.

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