For work this afternoon, I needed to read a screenplay written in the early 1970s. I think it’s the earliest-dated script I’ve read that wasn’t reprinted in a book.
Words on the page
More on Archer’s odd pre-laps
Comparing Archer’s actual script to my transcript-y approximation shows a little bit more about how Adam Reed’s show works.
Archer’s semi-pre-laps
Archer does a strange thing I haven’t seen in many shows: the final line of a scene often serves as the first line of the next scene.
His, hers and ours
A new browser extension points out an interesting and esoteric problem in English: “her” functions as both an objective pronounce and a possessive one.