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I always took that usage to come from the idea of offending one's sensibilities. That's also how I took the author's use of offensive i.e. it offended his sens
by lucozade 10y ago
I always took that usage to come from the idea of offending one's sensibilities.
That's also how I took the author's use of offensive i.e. it offended his sensibility that mid-Atlantic has two meanings (or whatever it was that he was offended by).
- openasocket 10y agoI read it as he doesn't like the accent, and doesn't like that it's associated with him. It's a joke, a pun on the two meanings of "mid-Atlantic"