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Are you American? Could you talk about some of the phrases and wordplay in here which didn't make sense to you? As a British person, this reads very easily, to
by savef 3y ago
Are you American? Could you talk about some of the phrases and wordplay in here which didn't make sense to you?
As a British person, this reads very easily, to the point that I'm shocked it's over 200 years old.
- Max_Mustermann 3y agoAs a non-native reader it seemed pretty clear to me as well. I guess knowing some French and having read a lot of fantasy novels helps.
- tkgally 3y agoHere are some of the references in that passage that I would have had difficulty explaining before reading this book, and some I still cannot define: the GO among the “goes!”; the Stews; Mother Dish-up’s; for a single darkey; the Hells; the Prime Ones at Tattersal’s; the Fives-Court; the Fancy; and the significance of Don Giovanni and Signor Antonelli in (apparent) reference to gambling. This meaning of “Hell” is defined in the linked dictionary: “a fashionable gambling house.” I learned “the Fancy” when I read this and other books by Pierce Egan, as it’s a term he often used to mean boxers. While I understood immediately that the “class of females” in the Theatres meant prostitutes, I might not have picked up on that if I hadn’t read this and other books from the Regency period.
- crazygringo 3y agoI second all of those. I'm American as well, and they're all similarly gibberish to me.