I'm having trouble understanding how, in the future, the English language will regress back to medieval-speak where heroes are honored in the town square and leaders are 'Lords', yet bed and breakfasts float in midair/or somebody's undecided on whether or not to stay in Rome... this is confusing
If the album is played with lutes and fifes, I won't be surprised.
I think we have to suspend disbelief given that that would probably be part of the grand atmosphere that DT want to create along with the fact that this is a dystopian sci-fi album with giant floating balls called NOMACS roaming around with the Majesty logo as their skeleton. It's fair to say that they are not going for realism.
I don't really mind this regression in language because it's not really supposed to be grounded in real life just like Rush's 2112 and Cygnus stories. They are escapist fantasies which, while they had their fair share of cheese, were very emotional and compelling. This is why I have confidence in the new album, as they already pulled off SFaM 16 years ago and did it with a similarly weighty and strange concept (if not more so considering that SFaM has elements of the supernatural and spiritual while TA seemingly does not). If they could do it then, they can do it now.