Why are dialect and other aspects of language so important in historical fiction? When its language isn’t difficult to understand, a story doesn’t seem like a classic

A mixture of modern expressions and outdated speech makes a book more interesting.

Dialect helps the story seem realistic for the time period when it was supposed to occur.

If the author writes the story in a dialect, it is much easier to read and understand.

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