Robert Morpheal wrote:
> George Orwell wrote:
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>> ma aye loe sauk kalar chee sar
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> Is that Burmese or ?
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> I believe Orwell knew Burmese, if that is what it is called.
> He was a police chief over there, serving the British.
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> R.M.
He wasn't: he was a simple patrolman. He says in a letter to F.
Tennyson Jesse that hardly any of the British residents ever learned a
word of Burmese. Of course this does not mean that he knew none.
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