 Understanding the Brits. I've blogged this before. And here it is again, because it's just too good. George Mikes: How to be an Alien. Fab. In fact, it deserves a double-fab at least. And I guess Majo will like it anyway - if he ever returns from Legoland.When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I'd been here an hour I realised that I did not understand one word. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I would never know it really well, let alone perfectly. This is sad. My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly. Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and yet another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard before, and nobody else either.
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