re: #246 Walter L. Newton
Good.
If you read the books mentioned (er, that’s over 4000 pages in 4 books), you’ll see that Stephenson is not imitating the welsh so much as satirizing them, very funny stuff without being nasty.
Four thousand pages?
Crikey - when would I find time to be on LGF?
(The Welsh don’t mind being satirised - that means the satirising person is at least taking notice of them …!)