Is でござる used in Modern Society?


If one speaks Japanese to a, say, stranger in Modern times, is 「でござる」still
acceptable?

If somebody says 「でござる」, what would be the people's general reaction?




When my American husband tried using でござる in speech among college-age Japanese
friends for fun after reading the _Rurouni Kenshin_ manga, back when he was
learning Japanese in the early 2000s, they were baffled and told him to stop.
You could toss it out once or twice as a joke, but no: though you could be
grammatically-correct in using it, it's not considered acceptable/welcome
speech to consistently use in general contexts. If you persisted in it (my
husband chose not to), you would likely be viewed as eccentric and/or 空気読めない.
It's not "really off-putting" to the level of making people cringe or feel
offended, but Japanese culture doesn't generally welcome individuals going
against the norm and standing out, so you'd be indicating that either you
don't give a crap about that value, or that you don't understand it, or that
you're odd.

See also Boaz Yaniv's answer
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/653/if-i-wanted-to-sound-
more-like-a-samurai-what-words-and-phrases-should-i-learn/673#673) which
explains that

> the stereotypical Samurai speech in Jidaigeki is actually based on the Edo
> dialect of late Edo period. Many of the mannerisms you'd find in this speech
> do not specifically represent Samurai, but rather a typical resident of Edo
> in that particular time.

