>I did as he bade,
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggh! "Bade??!" "BADE!!!????" <Howls of frenzied anguish, followed by prolonged disconsolate weeping>
I'll get over it in a week or two, I'm sure. But when someone uses a word in an archaic meaning, and in the freakin' past tense, no less, he loses me as a reader, to put it mildly. Things like that make me want to pour hot sauce on the writer's head and then dump fire ants on him. Grab the red pen, Ed, and slash away!
Very few writers can get away with affecting an Olde Englishe style. You are most emphatically not one of them, Dave. It's tricky enough writing in modern standard English. Why don't you learn how to do that, first?
Critically,
Martin Crim
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