Makes sense, indicating that the author had given some thought to the details of the plot and period!
(And there were a lot of private shorthands that never caught on or have been forgotten, Pepys' diary being the most famous: long assumed to have been written in a private code, it is now known to have been written in a common naval shorthand of the period.)
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Date: 2012-03-14 12:28 pm (UTC)(And there were a lot of private shorthands that never caught on or have been forgotten, Pepys' diary being the most famous: long assumed to have been written in a private code, it is now known to have been written in a common naval shorthand of the period.)