<<----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Taboada"
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matrxtech@yahoo.com>
> One point is that British toughness is not expressed
at
all
> in the same way as American toughness.
This is an interesting observation. Would you care to
back
it up?>>
I wasn't teasing. The observation comes from my whole
experience reading British and American fiction. I find
British fiction, particularly English fiction, to be drier,
more subdued, more self-deprecating than its American
counterpart. Human nature being universal, the toughness is
probably the same, but the expression in language is
different.
Best,
MrT
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"The skill of man is unequal to the formation of a new man
from old materials, but the battered tenement may, with care,
be long sustained by props" -- From Becklard's
Physiology.
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