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Unread 11-06-2012, 12:20 PM
Brian Allgar Brian Allgar is offline
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Originally Posted by John Whitworth View Post
I have the opportunity to introduce the boy Caesar. Do you think that sounds better?

Americans think all Englishmen are gay really. And Frenchmen also, come to that. Is it our accents? It can't be mine. I sound like a cockney taxi driver.
John, I think I preferred "Roman boys", partly for the scansion, and partly because the reader (ignorant fool though he may be) may not know which Caesar is being referred to - not that it matters, bunch of pooftahs the lot of them.

And don't think that your accent renders you above suspicion. There are plenty of gay cockney taxi drivers.
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