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Originally Posted by Snicket
No, I meant what I said, it was the original. Our english teacher was a nut for that sort of thing.
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Your High School English teacher taught your class how to read and understand Anglo Saxon? Unless you went to High School on Mars I don't really believe that. It would take literally years to learn to read and understand - it would be easier to teach someone Latin. It isn't something you're taught casually in High School English class.
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Originally Posted by KoukiR
GRRM has said countless times that ASoIF is set in Medievil Europe. It's just in an alternate universe. I don't really see what the big deal about the word is anyways and why people get so offended by it. It's just a four letter word.
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GRRM has never said this once, let alone countless times. He said certain events were inspired by the War of the Roses but ASoIaF is not set in an alternate version of "Medieval Europe." That makes absolutely no sense geographically, racially, linguistically, or realistically (considering there are dragons.... and Magic beings, etc.)
It's not set in an alternate version of Europe... that's the territory of stuff like The Pillars of the Earth. ASoIaF is set in a completely fictional world.