Clive James: ‘Australia’s grammar is a vestige, a mere gesture’

Is it because Australians eat so much meat?

I can’t prove it, but I suspect that in all the nations where the English language is collapsing, it collapses quickest in those nations where they eat the most meat. During the second world war, the US forces in the Pacific area issued their troops with a booklet indicating how much their allies ate. The booklet said that the Australians ate even more meat per week than the Americans.

Since then, the Americans have presumably caught up. One year when my wife and I w...Americans.

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Published on June 10, 2017 00:00
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