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Originally Posted by tdol You'll probably stand a better chance of winning the Nobel Prize for literature if you do use plain language.
PS- Wasn't it GB Shaw who said the two countries divided by a common language?  |
Yes, maybe it was, but Churchill used it as well...
Winston Churchill, himself a product of mixed British and American parents, once remarked that America and Britain were two countries divided by a common language. The Irish wit Oscar Wilde had his own version of this: "We have many things in common with the Americans except the language". (Quoted from:
http://www.nurturingpotential.net/Is...Language11.htm)
Literary theft I suppose, but
all's fair in love and war ... proverbially speaking, of course.
