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From: Martin Edwards <buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Al-Muntaqim
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:16:09 +0000 (UTC)
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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.
>
> 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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