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] Date Posted: 13:21:17 11/07/04 Sun In reply to: Paddy (Scotland) 's message, "T.E. Lawrence" on 10:35:12 11/07/04 Sun ... He actually chopped and changed the spellings deliberately, in a pretentious attempt to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of translitteration, as shown in a letter from him to his editor. When reading that book of his, and discovering such characters as Zhobeir, Sobayr, Zopaer and Subheyr, it took me a while to work out that these were in fact the same person, and the eerie similarities between their actions and personalities were in fact quite easily explained! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |