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Title: What Americans Don't Understand
Review: The title is enough to give me a fair share of 'review unhelpful' votes. But this is something that I've realized in alot of US reviews, even in the New York Post. They don't seem to get the point. They'll ramble on about how the prose is trite and too dry, all the while failing to realize that this isn't American literature. This is British.You could perhaps put some of the fault of misunderstanding on Bloomsbury, with the emphasis they've been placing on the US mass marketing, it gives the impression that this book is meant primarily for Americans. Which, of course, it isn't. (Ifm pretty sure I haven't read a more British book in the last decade.)We say 'lost in translation' and think it only refers to exotic languages and translations, but what we fail to realize is that it applies also to the gap between British English and American English.
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