Vavrek posted:

The dialogue makes me wonder. Given the book is almost one century old, am I struggling to follow the meanings of what characters are saying because:
* It's century-old slang.
* The communication style, separate from the vocabulary, has shifted so much.
* These characters are a bunch of weirdos who speak in circumlocutions.
* I'm missing the raw lived experience context of The Great War.
* It's just Hemingway, he always writes people talking like this.