[ontos-on]

I really dont get how people object to "speechifying" in the Gettysburg and the Gods and Generals movies. People were much more articulate back then and did tend to speak more formally. That's what happened. The portrayls of this helps give the viewer a sense of what was going on for the people who participated.

[justshutupandtakeit]

People, in general, were not more articulate then. How did you come up with that nostalgic idea? Far fewer people were educated enough to even speak correctly. I don't doubt that some of the leaders of that era were as articulate as any era but ideology has gotten in the way of truth if you believe they were in anyway superior to the people of today.