(n.) The difference between (i) how an old language is portrayed in a film or tv show and (ii) what it really sounded like (as recorded or reconstructed). (From the 18th century pronunciation of the French word Roi, which is now pronounced rwa, of course.)
Примеры использования:
"'Boku wa?''Ja arimasen'? Are those samurai speaking modern Japanese?" "Yeah: the Roy Factor on this show is big enough for the Alvarez asteroid." | "What is that? Classical Latin? That's not what people spoke in the first century AD: it was an artificial, sort of hoity-toity written form of the language. Why would Pontius Pilate speak that? Highborn Romans spoke Greek, anyway."
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