If you're going to look for a book that takes place "during the civil war" then please

[conuly]

tell us which civil war.

Damn, I should've saved the post of the last person to ask for one during the English Civil War just so I could prove my point every time I say that to a (probably?) American poster.

Quick, does anybody want to head over to /r/whatsthatbook and make a post trying to find a book set during the English Civil War? Just be sure to not say which civil war, I need an example post to bookmark for my own uses.

This isn't actually prompted by that, but it's a longrunning minor grudge of mine. No, this is prompted by somebody who bought a book in "London" and if you're thinking that it's obvious that anybody from one of those other Londons would tell us that they don't mean the one in England then you are very wrong and you clearly have never interacted with the internet never.

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[wint3rpear]

LOL!!! https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/g40af5/english_civil_war_reading_recommendations/

Does that help??

[conuly]

Nah, this person was sensible enough to clarify in the main post. The ones who don’t clarify won’t get that the need for clarification applies to them too!

This isn’t an American only issue, btw. You’d be amazed how often people post in English on an English language sub about a childhood book and then tell us that English is not their first language - but never tell us the language they read the book in! Twice somebody did that, and when I asked if the book was in English they said “no, my language” and I had to ask again to get them to tell me what language that was. Both times it was Greek, and I’ve never been sure what to make of this fact.

[wint3rpear]

I hear you. I primarily speak English, but, I do speak a smattering of French, Italian, German, and little to none Russian LOL... and ditto with Japanese and Yiddish... oy. LOL!!!!!