"Who wrote ""East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet"""
TWAIN from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" — '...and never the twain shall meet...' — reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None was selected, but the entry "Technology Without an Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard." For example, the "Encyclopedia of Information Technology" lists "Technology Without an Interesting Name" as the official meaning of TWAIN. Objectives of the TWAIN Working Group and
East Is East (1999 film) reads: "Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet". George Khan is a Pakistani Muslim who has lived in Britain since 1937. He has a wife in Pakistan. He and his second wife Ella, a British Roman Catholic woman of Irish descent, have been married for twenty-five years and have seven children together; Nazir, Abdul, Tariq, Maneer, Saleem, Meenah and Sajid. George and Ella run a popular fish and chip shop in the neighborhood. While George is obsessed with the 1971 war between East and West Pakistan and arranging marriages for his children, the