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[telophase]

(I SPAM YOOOOOU!)

Matt Treyvaud over at No-sword has been looking at a 19th century Japanese book for children about the nations of the world. In this post, he features a couple of pages about the political arrangements in Victorian Britain, which seem to be strangely polyandrous. (One of the commenters refers to the history rather accurately as the result of a giant game of Telephone, which really makes me wonder what the string of mistranslations and misapprehensions must have been to end up as this. Makes you look at history books with a skeptical eye!)

Also, I'd totally read a novel based on this alternate version of British history.

Comments

[lnhammer]

I've been loving these posts. And packing away worldbuilding details of how wrong people can get things about other people.

---L.

[chomiji]

Yes ... maybe this is what happens eventually in the Ooku universe!

(And somewhat off topic ... my half-baked attempt to learn some Japanese has paid off in that I recognized in that mass of text these: 女王 ... and remembered they are "woman" and "king" and correctly deduced that this means queen - or so says Babelfish. Yays.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I only recognize five characters, and I see only four of them in the text. XD

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

This is the kind of 'Victorientalism 'the steampunkers should be doing.