I don't in any way claim to be all that knowledgeable of the British upper class. But yes, it wasn't all 'regency romance-like'. And of course the war (both actually) did have a impact om the upper classes, not only as many lost their young men, but society changed because of the war and there weren't as many people around willing to be servants or at least willing to be treated as they had been pre-war.
That's a jolly good question about being very English as opposed to British. And one to be perfectly honest I'm not sure I can put into words - without it turning into a lengthy essay. It's almost a case of 'you have to be there'. I know it's a completely different era, but I noticed a difference between the English and the Scots, the way they thought, acted and in terms of history, not to forget politically. when J & moved to Scotland some 18 years ago. And when we moved back to England some six years ago, even though we are literally just over the border from Scotland, the change back to English was notable.
Over the years I've been involved with fandom and had contact with Americans I've been somewhat surprised by quite how much difference there in between some States. And I don't just mean personal differences in views/politics, etc. but far more.
No, insanities wasn't the word I typed, it was 'unsanitised'. I did tell the spell checker to ignore it and not to change it, but clearly it did and I didn't notice. Now this is jolly interesting and somewhat strange. I have just checked the original post (I use Semagic (an LJ Client) to compose my posts; guess what? the word is still unsanitised. So how did it change? I know unsanitised is not actually 'proper' and I have now changed the above post to 'it hadn't been sanitised'. But I do wonder how it was changed. Oh, well, one of those mysteries of life.
I grew up in Iowa and Pennsylvania, lived for almost thirty years in California, and now live in North Carolina. All four states are extremely different in culture, dialect, history and social interactions … so I’ll guess the difference between British and English is somethIng like that. Thanks.
And unsanitized or not sanitized makes a lot more sense. 🙂 I have no idea how such things happen. No matter how careful I am, and even with autocorrect turned off on my devices wherever it’s allowed, they still happen to me frequently. I used to have a phone that, every time I typed the word “I,” the phone changed it to “Zimbabwe.” I only solved the problem by eventually trading in the phone.
I don't know how these things happen either. And this time is really weird. Given the correct word was in my saved post, I don't really understand how it changed by the time it got here. Very odd. Gosh, your phone that change 'I' into Zimbabwe sounds really strange. I'm glad the problem was solved by trading your phone in, but even so - how weird.
That's a jolly good question about being very English as opposed to British. And one to be perfectly honest I'm not sure I can put into words - without it turning into a lengthy essay. It's almost a case of 'you have to be there'. I know it's a completely different era, but I noticed a difference between the English and the Scots, the way they thought, acted and in terms of history, not to forget politically. when J & moved to Scotland some 18 years ago. And when we moved back to England some six years ago, even though we are literally just over the border from Scotland, the change back to English was notable.
Over the years I've been involved with fandom and had contact with Americans I've been somewhat surprised by quite how much difference there in between some States. And I don't just mean personal differences in views/politics, etc. but far more.
No, insanities wasn't the word I typed, it was 'unsanitised'. I did tell the spell checker to ignore it and not to change it, but clearly it did and I didn't notice. Now this is jolly interesting and somewhat strange. I have just checked the original post (I use Semagic (an LJ Client) to compose my posts; guess what? the word is still unsanitised. So how did it change? I know unsanitised is not actually 'proper' and I have now changed the above post to 'it hadn't been sanitised'. But I do wonder how it was changed. Oh, well, one of those mysteries of life.
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And unsanitized or not sanitized makes a lot more sense. 🙂 I have no idea how such things happen. No matter how careful I am, and even with autocorrect turned off on my devices wherever it’s allowed, they still happen to me frequently. I used to have a phone that, every time I typed the word “I,” the phone changed it to “Zimbabwe.” I only solved the problem by eventually trading in the phone.
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I don't know how these things happen either. And this time is really weird. Given the correct word was in my saved post, I don't really understand how it changed by the time it got here. Very odd. Gosh, your phone that change 'I' into Zimbabwe sounds really strange. I'm glad the problem was solved by trading your phone in, but even so - how weird.
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