minus-squareMerrickFM@alien.topBtoBooks•What's up with the archaic language in Kim, by Rudyard Kipling?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI think it denotes a difference between formal and informal terms of address. I haven’t read the book, but I have read Patrick O’Brian’s HMS Surprise, which has several Indian characters do the same thing when they’re meant to be speaking Hindi. linkfedilink
I think it denotes a difference between formal and informal terms of address. I haven’t read the book, but I have read Patrick O’Brian’s HMS Surprise, which has several Indian characters do the same thing when they’re meant to be speaking Hindi.