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Thread #139070   Message #3186694
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
13-Jul-11 - 10:22 AM
Thread Name: BS:threat to English language from Americanisms
Subject: RE: BS: the threat to the english language from
How nice to hear from other Wodehouse fans. I thought I was alone in the world.

So often when people talk about language (as on this radio program) they are talking about single words. But Wodehouse was the master of the English sentence. Some of his sentences are complex sculptures, with clauses artfully linked in ways most of us have forgotten.

I believe my favorite Wodehouse story is the one about the administrative assistant in Hollywood and the gorilla that spoke the King's English.