: Re: Appropriate use of outdated vocabulary and terms? I'm in the process of planning a story right now, without the intention of sharing it it with others, but I would like it to be comprehensible

I sometimes use archaic words but tell the reader the meaning in the same way a newspaper defines words the lower vocabulary reader might not understand.

For example. "Did you do the task I set eow?" "Yes, Lady. It is done."
or: The percolator coffee maker sat on the stove.

You can tell that eow is 'you' just by the way it is written. I do caution you in over-used of dialect or different language. If you can't read it aloud seamlessly, then it isn't worth having it in the story.
Percolator and coffee maker are almost the same thing.

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