I’m not as well-read as Irene Colthurst (as anybody comparing my use of language to hers will notice.) But from what I have read -
There seems to be a stylistic difference in the way British and non-Southern American writers …write, after Hemingway.
Put simply, Brits (and Southerners) love language in a way that most Americans are taught not to. Their prose is much more descriptive, whereas many Americans who are trying to learn how to write have had adjectives and adverbs criticized out of them.
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I’m not as well-read as Irene Colthurst (as anybody comparing my use of language to hers will notice.) But from what I have read -
There seems to be a stylistic difference in the way British and non-Southern American writers …write, after Hemingway.
Put simply, Brits (and Southerners) love language in a way that most Americans are taught not to. Their prose is much more descriptive, whereas many Americans who are trying to learn how to write have had adjectives and adverbs criticized out of them.