[AllenOwen]

Instead of saying "Are you okay?" it should be "Are you well?", for example. 

 

[AllenOwen]

I read a Big Five novel, not fantasy, not humour, set in 15th c England, where someone calls one of the lords a 'smooth operator' and says that a certain event was 'just a blip.' I really, really wanted to fling the book out the window except it might have hit a cat or something...

That. Is. Ridiculous.
I was reading a fantasy novel I picked up at a used bookshop and it has a line of dialogue "we'll be all right." The rest of the dialogue I saw wasn't that bad. That's what I'm trying to avoid. Dialogue is hard anyway, seems harder for a medieval fantasy.