Quote Originally Posted by King Henry V View Post
I speak in a manner which in England is decidedly "upper class" (I sound similar to Trevor Howard), probably much more "upper-class" than those of the English upper classes of my generation from what little I have seen or heard of them, but this is not an affectation of mine, merely due to being brought up abroad and having attended a French-speaking school, only receiving the influence of my mother's Received Pronunciation English, which has lead to a kind of fossilised variety of it, unaffected by the increasingly rounded-vowels of modern English, or, Heaven forbid, mongrel International School English, which is what a good deal of my friends speak.
Please allow me to congratulate you on your excellent command of syntax - serving as an example to all, which clearly is the product not just of the world's finest schools, as I am tempted to provocatively argue, but won't for the stark contrast it is in to what will be the closing words of this sentence, but of a mind given to learning, a desire to properly express oneself - not to snobbishly distinguish oneself from the masses through immodesty, but, on the contrary, out of respect for the reader - and an understanding of language as a carrier of culture and artistic means of expression, all three of which are virtues which betray their owner as a bearer of true class.


And curse Hitler, that most vulgar of men. A plague on him and his internets henchmen.