07-30-2005, 01:09 AM
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
International Forum Great Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 34,225
News came out of the blue
 |
Bertie and Jeeves as Babus
This is amazing. P.G. Wodehouse based his parodies of upper-class British speech, in part, on late 19th-century humorous stereotypes of babu English ("the ornate and somewhat unidiomatic English of an Indian who has learnt the language principally from books", according...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002364.html
__________________
Please comment the news by answering to it here, merci de commenter les nouvelles en les commentant ici. |
| (Offline) |
|
 |
«
Previous Thread
|
Next Thread
»
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
|
|
|
Language Log : The international discussion forum : Bertie and Jeeves as Babus
|
