Not a massive penalty, it was just that everybody else would be really smug about how uncivilized you were. It could get annoying when you had 5 people doing a performative mockery of a late 19th century aristocratic stereotype in chorus. Lots of “Oh dear” and “I say” and miming of the adjusting of a monocle.
What would happen when you broke the rules? Did everyone get a “non-colloquialism jar” and had to put in 10c or something?
Not a massive penalty, it was just that everybody else would be really smug about how uncivilized you were. It could get annoying when you had 5 people doing a performative mockery of a late 19th century aristocratic stereotype in chorus. Lots of “Oh dear” and “I say” and miming of the adjusting of a monocle.
Probably something like this