*giggles at Hugh Laurie's writing style* Wow, he's almost as good as Wodehouse! Sounds like I definitely must read the Jeeves series.
Yeah, you've got to love Stephen Fry. I was quite fond of him in Wilde, of course, too. (My appreciation has nothing to do with the naked-Jude-Law content. No, nothing at all.)
The thing with P.G.'s American characters is merely that they have a tendency to sound too British, to me. He doesn't seem to exaggerate Americanisms, necessarily, but rather has Yankees say stuff like "old chap" and "I'm dashed if I can" and "have you any money?" and other stuff that I doubt Americans have said since the 18th century. :) But, then, I haven't researched that specifically...
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Date: 2003-05-30 09:12 am (UTC)Yeah, you've got to love Stephen Fry. I was quite fond of him in Wilde, of course, too. (My appreciation has nothing to do with the naked-Jude-Law content. No, nothing at all.)
The thing with P.G.'s American characters is merely that they have a tendency to sound too British, to me. He doesn't seem to exaggerate Americanisms, necessarily, but rather has Yankees say stuff like "old chap" and "I'm dashed if I can" and "have you any money?" and other stuff that I doubt Americans have said since the 18th century. :) But, then, I haven't researched that specifically...