The AOL world of bloggers have their own non-AOL supported blog awards going: the VIVI awards. The Adventures of a desperately fat housewife is deservedly nominated for several categories of awards.
Just look at this sentence of hers: "Her doctor had been able to do nothing for her discomfort but prescribe a codeine based analgesic which only exacerbated her habitual constipation".
- I truly love it when people are able to write properly crafted English while simultaneously being wickedly funny in that subtly understated way of the Brits.

And I am also a little bit envious, because I am myself constantly struggling with this wonderful language, which is unfortunately not my own. I am beginning to feel restricted by it, my vocabulary consists of too few words, I get stuck with the same old phrases, again and again I am not able to say exactly what I want to say before I have looked things up in a dictionary. Perhaps I should go back to reading Jane Austen again - I openly confess, I have yet to find a writer whose command of the nuances of English language is more convincing than hers ...(fyi, I studied a year in England in the later part of the 90's and it took me a long time to catch up with English as it is spoken today; the locals were laughing their heads off, because they thought I spoke like an Jane Austen novel. Particularly that day, I mentioned someone coming "beaming down the stairs". Apparently people don't do that anymore ;)).

And talking about English language: go read the Scotsman.com and try to count the number of times, the journalists there use the word "outlandish"...Intriguing.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 20:20