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Originally Posted by jgray
When reading something from a British author, it's very handy to switch from the American dictionary. We really are "Two nations separated by a common language."  |
Oh, my. I just read Christopher Hitchens's memoir (
Hitch-22), and I had a lot of trouble with it. I can usually understand him, but I got the feeling that he wrote this for a British audience. He name-dropped endless people I had never heard of, spoke of common objects using words I didn't know and used colloquialisms that made me scratch my head. It was a tough read. Someone should translate it into American English.