Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 01, 2007 at 03:59:42 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Quotation from S & A Series- posted by Ed Kiser on May 01, 2007 at 02:23:44:
As for why are the Amazons and Jacky speaking so differently, perhaps this is yet another example of the "class differences" where the mode of speech reflects the class status - or is this pushing a touchy button...
Not touchy at all. It's just the way it is. You'd expect the Amazons to understand Jacky perfectly (and vice versa) but not to speak the same. And to a great extent, it's still true now. AR was a good observer of these things- in fact his time spent in Russia, in a completely different society, probably helped him see it even more clearly.
But then, when I was doing a job in the USA five years ago, it was just as true in Tennessee.