Writing convincing English

[Joe Allonby]

Fuck this for a game of soldiers, you right bloody bastards! You're all
bollixed!

On 6/22/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
>
> << From last Saturday's Telegraph (sorry to take so long to post) an
> article
> about the difficulties english speaking writers from either side of the
> Atlantic have in creating convincing dialogue from the other side: >>
>
> English slang and insult is far richer than American, part of the reason
> Monty Python and Harold Pinter are such fun to read.  American insult is
> usually
> either sexual, scatological, or anatomical.  British slang is all that
> plus
> verbally inventive, zoological, punning ... just much more inventive.
>
> I read Martin Amis's Night Train some while ago and don't remember having
> problems with bad Americanisms, but I read it quickly (it's short); I
> might feel
> differently were I reading it with the topic to hand in mind.
>
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