"Tyke, I know you to be a disobedient, under-educated, under-disciplined, loud mouthed ruffian, like most of your contemporaries, but in our long acquaintance of - let me see - some seven or eight years standing, I have not hitherto noticed any special tendency towards mendacity." (The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler)
1) What is the headteacher actually saying?
2) Would you describe his language as formal or informal?
3) Why do you think he speaks in this way?
4) How would it be different, if the headteacher had said this:
"Tyke, y' don't follow no rules and y' don't do any learnin' and you have a massive gob but even though I've known y' seven or eight years I don't reckon you lie."
1) What is the headteacher actually saying?
2) Would you describe his language as formal or informal?
3) Why do you think he speaks in this way?
4) How would it be different, if the headteacher had said this:
"Tyke, y' don't follow no rules and y' don't do any learnin' and you have a massive gob but even though I've known y' seven or eight years I don't reckon you lie."