T-Rex: A false document is when you refer to or quote books and stuff that don't exist in real life, but your whole story pretends like they actually do. Like when Shakespeare reads the dictionary!
Narrator: LITERARY TECHNIQUE COMICS
Narrator: today's technique:
Narrator: FALSE DOCUMENTS
Dromiceiomimus: That's not a false document, T-Rex! Shakespeare was a real guy, and dictionaries actually exist. It's more like if, I don't know, the Necronomicon was read by a Shakespeare CHARACTER.
T-Rex: Hah! Shakespeare's already QUITE the character, believe you me!!
T-Rex: ...He's sullen to me sometimes
Utahraptor: Except Shakespeare did most of his writing before dictionaries!
T-Rex: Oh man, really?
Utahraptor: Yep! The earliest English dictionaries we've got showed up AFTER he started writing plays: it's one of the reasons he's had such an effect on the language. He was around while the written form was crystallizing!
T-Rex: So I WAS TOTALLY partially right! That's EXCELLENT.
Narrator: MEANWHILE, IN TUDOR ENGLAND!
T-Rex: Shakespeare, if you spell "assume" differently, you'll stop future generations from making that stupid "ass out of u and me" joke!
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Off panel: i have like no context to understand any of this