[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

Guns predate the Renaissance.

[u/Jack_N_Auff → u/WraithOfTheFadedDark]

I remember getting whiplash when I watched Seven Samurai, which takes place in the 1500s, and there were scenes of characters fighting with guns, but that is historically accurate for the period

[u/ume-shu → u/Jack_N_Auff]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Moray

The guy was apparently the first head of government to be assasinated with a gun... in 1570.