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Old 03-09-2002, 06:58 PM   #16
Kalimac
Candle of the Marshes
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I never found Tolkien's writing particularly difficult to understand (I'm speaking as an American who's been to England for all of a month). But my parents are literary anglophiles in a way; I only realized recently that about 80% of the English-language books we have were written by British authors, and many of them are from the '30s and '40s. So I got pretty used to understanding the expressions, if not using them in my own speech (though I have puzzled people occasionally with "that throws a spanner in things"). When I say braces, boot and jumper to people, though, I'm using the American meanings [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].
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