Emphases mine:
When Pete democratically suggests they put it to a vote, Roger autocratically reminds him he’s a senior partner to Pete’s junior as well as suggesting they step outside, one-upping Pete with both might and right. Being a whiner not a fighter (as well as part of a generation that prefers to parlay rather than punch), Pete lets it go…
Some professor will ask, “So what do you think was going through the author’s mind when he wrote this?”
And his students will reply, “Alcohol and rage.”
Then everyone will get A’s.
Dey weal all haff ubvious accent, bit because Aye em bat writer, dey weal all spick wit, how you say, Americanski idiom. Like, say,
I come to here uff de boat, and I ken not get good job. It is sex of wan, haff dozen of other. But a bird een hand, as dey say. I em batting one-tousand.
Da! Da! Is good, is good!
