-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.6 Dec 2004

Yes but you don't prefer reality over the pretense of class, do you? That's why you're using mouth-plums like "shocked you with dismay" and "calling attention to this abysmal outcome" and "urging your use of strong language". Those are hardly inelegant Americanisms. They aren't Americanisms at all. Here are some Americanisms: Good job! Howdy! Y'all! None of those are mouth-plums. Your mouth-plums look far more like an attempt to sound posh than anything I've temerariously deigned to inscribe.