Language Evolves
As a result of my confinement yesterday I finished one of the books I brought with me, The Bookshop1 by Penelope Fitzgerald. I've done my best to expand my reading beyond American shores and usually translated books are deceptively simplified into sparse, straight forward language. The Bookshop, however, follows the lilt of East Anglia and was sometimes impenetrable. It was also humorous. Try reading this aloud to your friends -
"Poltergeists, in Hardborough, were called rappers. They might go on for years, then suddenly stop, but no one who had heard the noise, with its suggestion of furious physical frustration, as though whatever was behind it could not get out, was ever likely to mistake it for anything else."
I never knew Her Majesty's English would make so applicable a provision to the likes of Tupac, 'Lil Wayne or Biggie Smalls.
1Review forthcoming...
8:40:19 AM 
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