HAH! Thank you, my dear beta :D! That's what I get for working on the train after hours... I'll make a note.
"Mum" is - ... I did think about it. "Mother" and "Mama" just sound so stiff. I'm having little Gawain use "Mother" when speaking of and to his mother, but "dad(dy)" when referring to his father, to show how close (or not) he feels to each parent. Morgause and Morgana say mum and dad because Gorlois and Ygraine have no protocol at all with their children.
I don't know... Do you think it sounds too odd? I just don't want to use any kind of "knightly", pseudo-medieval or old-fashioned idiom. I don't want to remove the characters any further than necessary from the world as we know it.
Poor Ygraine, though, on page two: that's a bad case of double chin she gets whenever she lifts her head to shout. Don't laugh! It's difficult! XD
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Date: Friday, 17 July 2009 09:18 pm (UTC)"Mum" is - ... I did think about it. "Mother" and "Mama" just sound so stiff. I'm having little Gawain use "Mother" when speaking of and to his mother, but "dad(dy)" when referring to his father, to show how close (or not) he feels to each parent. Morgause and Morgana say mum and dad because Gorlois and Ygraine have no protocol at all with their children.
I don't know... Do you think it sounds too odd? I just don't want to use any kind of "knightly", pseudo-medieval or old-fashioned idiom. I don't want to remove the characters any further than necessary from the world as we know it.
Poor Ygraine, though, on page two: that's a bad case of double chin she gets whenever she lifts her head to shout.
Don't laugh! It's difficult! XD