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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 9587363, member: 16283"]Still not grokkin' the lingo,but it sure sounds purdy & is quite lyrical.Ditto OBB- You do shed your perfect grammar occasionally for a bit of Cockney (East End ?).</p><p>Am currently reading a 1924 short story by Kipling-'The Wish House'.The two elderly farm wives converse in what Kipling calls 'ancient Sussex',by which I assume he means the local vernacular.</p><p>You'd think after almost 60 years of Ealing,Goon Show,Dr. Who,Beatles,we Yanks would be a little more fluent w/ English slang-but alas,much of it reads like James Joyce to my old brain.</p><p><i>“…after you'd drunk the old moloko… you got the messel that everything all round you was sort of in the past…”</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 9587363, member: 16283"]Still not grokkin' the lingo,but it sure sounds purdy & is quite lyrical.Ditto OBB- You do shed your perfect grammar occasionally for a bit of Cockney (East End ?). Am currently reading a 1924 short story by Kipling-'The Wish House'.The two elderly farm wives converse in what Kipling calls 'ancient Sussex',by which I assume he means the local vernacular. You'd think after almost 60 years of Ealing,Goon Show,Dr. Who,Beatles,we Yanks would be a little more fluent w/ English slang-but alas,much of it reads like James Joyce to my old brain. [I]“…after you'd drunk the old moloko… you got the messel that everything all round you was sort of in the past…”[/I][/QUOTE]
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