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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 249935" data-attributes="member: 23">One observation I forgot to make. At the end of one of Duncan&#039;s lines, Jackman - to my horror - used the term &quot;OK&quot;. Presumably this was a failed ad lib. I can&#039;t imagine the scriptwriters would have included such a blatant anachronism.On a similar note, a number of characters have peppered their dialogue with &quot;I mean&quot;. Usually used superfluously at the beginning of sentences. Wendy Hughes was the #1 offender with this, but Jackman&#039;s also covered it. To me it sounds extremely contemporary, and far from the formality that comes to mind when I think of the late Nineteenth Century with all its Victorian influences. That said, I don&#039;t know enough about language in general and Australian English in particular to know if &quot;I mean&quot; was casually used in this way in this place and time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 249935, member: 23"] One observation I forgot to make. At the end of one of Duncan's lines, Jackman - to my horror - used the term "OK". Presumably this was a failed ad lib. I can't imagine the scriptwriters would have included such a blatant anachronism. On a similar note, a number of characters have peppered their dialogue with "I mean". Usually used superfluously at the beginning of sentences. Wendy Hughes was the #1 offender with this, but Jackman's also covered it. To me it sounds extremely contemporary, and far from the formality that comes to mind when I think of the late Nineteenth Century with all its Victorian influences. That said, I don't know enough about language in general and Australian English in particular to know if "I mean" [I]was[/I] casually used in this way in this place and time. [/QUOTE]

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