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"Try the radio again," Pete said, and pressed the on button. Music. Everything quite normal. Roaring Mortimer's crazy version of Summertime with the high-speed double talk like an old King Pleasure number.
"Summertime boys and girls and those intermediate and the killing is wheezy laze an' gemmun an' it's a GAS a GAS a KNOCK SEE JIM! Heddle-ah-boh!"
The king of idiom.
— Dec 28, 2023 12:43AM
"Summertime boys and girls and those intermediate and the killing is wheezy laze an' gemmun an' it's a GAS a GAS a KNOCK SEE JIM! Heddle-ah-boh!"
The king of idiom.
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This character subsequently gets shot and the shock causes him to lose all English syntax. People do lose fluency their secondary languages in moments of stress but would you believe John Brunner’s execution of this phenomenon leaves a bit to be desired.
— Dec 26, 2023 07:04PM
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"That should put-if you forgive the remark—a little color in your cheeks," encouraged Major Obou. She forced a smile in reply, and wondered for the latest of many times what she should make of this handsome dark man who took such pains to salt his English with bookish idioms, right or wrong.”
The nerve of this man.
— Dec 26, 2023 07:02PM
The nerve of this man.
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Not even ten percent of the way in and we’ve got Americans beginning sentences with “Mustn’t”. He’s a master.
— Dec 24, 2023 11:46PM
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It’s the holiday season so I am again subjecting myself to a John Brunner book
— Dec 23, 2023 03:42PM
