Comment on Pub Talk and the King's English
    The author of Pub Talk and the King's English is Henry Fairlie, a British political journalist and social critic. Henry Fairlie is a contributing editor to The New Republic as well as a contributor to other journals. Besides, he also is the author of The Kennedy Promise, The Life Politics and The spoiled Child of the Western World.
    Pub Talk and the King's English is talking about what is a good conversation.By reading this article,we can find the main feature of a good conversation.Firstly, anything can start a conversation. Secondly, he who would have anything important to say spoils the conversation. Thirdly,conversation is not for making a point. Lastly,there's no winning in conversation. In order to show the charm of conversation,the author takes one bar conversation which is about the King's English as an example.
    Pub Talk and the King's English just likes a free talk because of its loose organization and highly informal language. Why do I say so? Well, let's start from the
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organization. To start with, it has an improper title. This article doesn't describe the relationship between pub talk and the King's English but what's a good conversation. In addition, there're 2 theses in it. One is that conversation is the most sociable of all human activities, the other is that bar conversation has a charm of its own. Moreover, it has 2 digressions---the history of the King's English and the author's attitude toward the King's English from the topic. These 3 points reflect the article's loose organization. Then,we'll analyse the highly informal language. In the article, we can find abundance of simple idiomatic expressions, mixed metaphor and ungrammatical sentences.
To sum up, Pub talk and the King's English seems like a conversation, and we readers enjoy ourselves in such a novel way.

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