Talk:Boy (autobiography)

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Difficult to understand[edit]

"The book says that these things could result in caning and penal servitude by the "higher-placed" persons in Roald’s society."it was coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

This sentence doesn't really make sense. a) it's misleading, because I'm sure 'penal servitutde' was being used in a metaphorical</nowiki>Bold text, humourous sense and b) it's unclear what is meant by Roald's 'society'. Does this mean a particular groups of friends, an organised boys 'secret society' or members of the wider society of the school in general? And why is 'higher placed' written between inverted commas'?

Daviddariusbijan 18:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Headmaster of Repton[edit]

The previous editor left a comment in the article stating that the Headmaster of Repton (as stated in this book by Roald Dahl) may not have actually have been headmaster at that point in time. This may well be correct, but that comment was not really in encyclopaedic format. For the time being I have rephrased the paragraph slightly, and have aimed to make it clear that the identity of the stated headmaster was according to Dahl as mentioned in the autobiography itself.what a saddo!

t, and all the references on Wikipedia are referencing Dahl. Timrollpickering 14:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:BoyDahl2.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also :Fair use|fair use]] but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Thegreatcurve 21:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Translator??[edit]

The book appears to be in English. Why would it be translated from English into English? Also, the link is broken. 58.96.110.21 (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the "Translator" section for now. 58.96.110.21 (talk) 11:10, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]