false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg 288448 7 279864 2004 Watching the English total:426|5:105|4:182|3:115|2:19|1:5| 426 1641 790 108 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 5 2 false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 09:26:51 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 09:33:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 1 1 false Wed Oct 31 02:51:25 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 03:02:43 -0700 2007

It COULD actually have been hilarious (and we are led to believe that it is....for so say many, many reviews) but the author is just so full of herself, it is simply annoying.

More than once while reading (up to the point where I decided to call ...more...]]> 578686 0340818867 9780340818862 71 18 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175968598m/578686.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578686.Watching_the_English_The_Hidden_Rules_of_English_Behaviour 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 20:44:06 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 20:44:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 5 1 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 10:04:37 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 10:32:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 578686 0340818867 9780340818862 71 18 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175968598m/578686.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578686.Watching_the_English_The_Hidden_Rules_of_English_Behaviour 4 0 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 04:17:05 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 03:07:53 -0800 2009
The insight...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 0 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 21:15:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 21:23:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 5 3 false Fri Aug 07 01:07:28 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 14:59:21 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 01:07:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 4 0 false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:33:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:42:22 -0700 2009 I have developed a rather bad habit after reading thi...more...]]> 578686 0340818867 9780340818862 71 18 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175968598m/578686.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578686.Watching_the_English_The_Hidden_Rules_of_English_Behaviour 4 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 03:07:19 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:04:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 578686 0340818867 9780340818862 71 18 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175968598m/578686.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578686.Watching_the_English_The_Hidden_Rules_of_English_Behaviour 4 0 false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:40:42 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 14:44:20 -0800 2009
If you are English you will certainly chuckle in recognition at many things that Kate Fox points out; things that we do without thinking. Som...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 3 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 29 12:21:35 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 12:21:35 -0700 2009 But then I started to be put of with Mrs. Fox contempt for anything "hippie" or "new age", and her lov...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 3 0 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:14:24 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 17:22:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 3 1 false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 05 04:54:24 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 01:41:17 -0800 2009 Here's my review.]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 0 0 false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 13:26:10 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 13:37:12 -0700 2009
This is an anthropological study by an English anthropologist, with a large dose of humour but with an acutely sharp observation of her fellow English.

If you aren't English maybe...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 10:10:41 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:46:24 -0800 2009 - Eat food off the back of their forks (there's a special way of mashing peas that the author described but I don't get it)
- Talk for like half an hour about nothing before starting a business meeting. This would really bother me, as I tend to walk up to peop...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 4 0 false Fri Feb 20 21:52:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 08:48:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 4 0 false Fri Dec 05 07:28:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 31 02:16:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 4 0 false Wed Jun 04 06:46:34 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 06:58:16 -0700 2008
As an Australian, I found that a lot of the cultural pecularities described were very familiar. For example:
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For example, I've been in situations in Germany when it's not considered polite to ask, "What do you do?" (referring to job) as small talk. First of all, there are so many stay-at-ho...more...]]> 288448 0340752122 9780340752128 336 85 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173441788m/288448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288448.Watching_the_English 2 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 15 06:16:18 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 02 04:15:58 -0800 2007
It provides a really interesting partial catalog of modern day English classes and how they self identify through words.

For example, what someone calls their evening meal tells bits about how the speaker is and who they'd like to be.
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