Myanmar with a Thai accent "Motherfucker that Indian eat shit"
"Martin Edwards" <buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Robert Morpheal wrote:
>> George Orwell wrote:
>>
>>> ma aye loe sauk kalar chee sar
>>
>>
>> Is that Burmese or ?
>>
>> 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.
>
> --
> You can't fool me: there ain't no Sanity Clause. -Chico Marx
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1955
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