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Post by Pacifica on Nov 14, 2024 19:34:30 GMT
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 14, 2024 20:37:09 GMT
Thinking about this far more than I should, you could simply have said yes to British, rather than yes and no. The fact that he was born to a civil servant in a British colony is neither here nor there, really.
Given the demands of this forum, as soon as I shook off my inability to get more modern than Kipling, it became obvious, because there's a limited pool of characters one can reasonably expect everyone to know. If it had been Kipling, is there any character who stands out? In an anglophone forum, I'd assume Kim or Gunga Din would be possible, but not necessarily here.
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 14, 2024 20:53:53 GMT
I would have said yes if the question had been, precisely, "Was the author/writer British?" But the question actually was "Is the writer from the UK?"
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 14, 2024 20:55:51 GMT
I did wonder whether India, being a colony of the UK, could have been considered part of the UK back then... but probably not, right?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 14, 2024 21:12:30 GMT
True.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 14, 2024 23:47:29 GMT
By the way, this is the point at which I got the idea to use Big Brother next: Now that you say it, I had actually thought of Big Brother when I read that exchange! |
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Post by kizolk on Nov 14, 2024 23:50:53 GMT
If it had been Kipling, is there any character who stands out? In an anglophone forum, I'd assume Kim or Gunga Din would be possible, but not necessarily here. I haven't read any Kipling, but I've seen Disney's Jungle Book adaptation. Mowgli and Baloo are pretty famous, but I've never heard of those you mentioned. |
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