Is Not IT to be Proudy for Indians after Successfull vision of Chandrayan1 ?? :)
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No matter how advanced we think we are, we still can't write proper English. -Saurabh
Why is advancement linked to being able to communicate in English??
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Why is advancement linked to being able to communicate in English??
Largest Language in the World. The Language of Business. The Language of Science. The Language of Technology. The Language of Air Transport.
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Largest Language in the World. The Language of Business. The Language of Science. The Language of Technology. The Language of Air Transport.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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I agree... but that wasn't really what I meant :) Do you consider somebody who cannot speak good English as "backward" then?
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I agree... but that wasn't really what I meant :) Do you consider somebody who cannot speak good English as "backward" then?
No, of course not. But if anything is to be a truly world wide success, then there must be some English spoken!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Largest Language in the World. The Language of Business. The Language of Science. The Language of Technology. The Language of Air Transport.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Largest Language in the World
Actually, according to Wikipedia[^]: "English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish." But I do agree, it's an important language used in Business, Technology and Air Transport. I'd risk saying that English accomplished what Esperanto aimed to do. Just let's not forget that there are other important things that humans achieved, like philosophy - you'd probably need to learn German. And I'd not be so fast to say that it's the language used in Science, although there is a vast material available in English.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Largest Language in the World
Actually, according to Wikipedia[^]: "English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish." But I do agree, it's an important language used in Business, Technology and Air Transport. I'd risk saying that English accomplished what Esperanto aimed to do. Just let's not forget that there are other important things that humans achieved, like philosophy - you'd probably need to learn German. And I'd not be so fast to say that it's the language used in Science, although there is a vast material available in English.
I see dead pixels
Thanks for that. However, on re-reading my post I discovered I did not mention the number of speakers, merely that it was the biggest language. In terms of number of speakers, it is the largest by far.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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No, of course not. But if anything is to be a truly world wide success, then there must be some English spoken!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
But if anything is to be a truly world wide success, then there must be some English spoken!
I rest my case :)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
But if anything is to be a truly world wide success, then there must be some English spoken!
I rest my case :)
I have seen an Indian television program where the conversation went... [Allowing for my untrained ear] "Blah Blah Blah Blah Microwave Blah BLah Blah Bloody Damn Fool!" I think it is nice India is adopting English words, after all English has been adopting Indian words for hundres of years! Shampoo, Veranda, Bungalow etc
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Largest Language in the World
Actually, according to Wikipedia[^]: "English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish." But I do agree, it's an important language used in Business, Technology and Air Transport. I'd risk saying that English accomplished what Esperanto aimed to do. Just let's not forget that there are other important things that humans achieved, like philosophy - you'd probably need to learn German. And I'd not be so fast to say that it's the language used in Science, although there is a vast material available in English.
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Daniel Turini wrote:
according to Wikipedia
You shouldn't take everything you read on wikipedia as fact...
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Daniel Turini wrote:
according to Wikipedia
You shouldn't take everything you read on wikipedia as fact...
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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Largest Language in the World. The Language of Business. The Language of Science. The Language of Technology. The Language of Air Transport.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
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The above scenario is changing. Unfortunately I'm not able to write it in Chinese language. :-D
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Would you not be prouder if you had done it with your own money? Or maybe the UK will not give you £250 Million next year, as you do not seem to need the aid now, since you are rich enough to go to the moon.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
Or maybe the UK will not give you £250 Million next year
Is this true? I know £250 million is a fairly small amount on the scale of countries and space flight, but it seems a bit rude to take aid and charity donations and then go and spend money on space missions. It's like when you lend you mate £100 on Friday because he can't afford rent this week, then see him out at the pub on Saturday drinking and showing off the new trainers he's just brought.
Simon
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Or maybe the UK will not give you £250 Million next year
Is this true? I know £250 million is a fairly small amount on the scale of countries and space flight, but it seems a bit rude to take aid and charity donations and then go and spend money on space missions. It's like when you lend you mate £100 on Friday because he can't afford rent this week, then see him out at the pub on Saturday drinking and showing off the new trainers he's just brought.
Simon
Oh yes totally true. We hand out £250 million a year to India for aid and relief, so I think we should spend it here in Britain next year.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Largest Language in the World
Actually, according to Wikipedia[^]: "English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish." But I do agree, it's an important language used in Business, Technology and Air Transport. I'd risk saying that English accomplished what Esperanto aimed to do. Just let's not forget that there are other important things that humans achieved, like philosophy - you'd probably need to learn German. And I'd not be so fast to say that it's the language used in Science, although there is a vast material available in English.
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Daniel Turini wrote:
Actually, according to Wikipedia[^]: "English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish."
So yeah, i think its still the most commonly used langauge for stuff. You go to Spain, the langauge is Spanish, but you find alot of people still speak English.
My current favourite word is: Nipple!
-SK Genius
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Oh yes totally true. We hand out £250 million a year to India for aid and relief, so I think we should spend it here in Britain next year.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
We hand out £250 million a year to India for aid and relief, so I think we should spend it here in Britain next year.
That gets my 5 then. Why should we be handing out cash to them to help get to the moon when we've never even done it ourselves.
Simon
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Dalek Dave wrote:
We hand out £250 million a year to India for aid and relief, so I think we should spend it here in Britain next year.
That gets my 5 then. Why should we be handing out cash to them to help get to the moon when we've never even done it ourselves.
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
get to the moon when we've never even done it ourselves.
Outsourced.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Would you not be prouder if you had done it with your own money? Or maybe the UK will not give you £250 Million next year, as you do not seem to need the aid now, since you are rich enough to go to the moon.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Ah no, Dalek, I don't think that is fair. Awfully nice of you chaps to give India aid and India should never begrudge that but part of aid is meant to uplift a country, not just buy practical water purifiers and blankets. Reaching the Moon is hugely inspirational and should help inspire kids to better themselves. It also takes schools, universities, research labs and factories to reach the Moon, stuff the aid money hopefully helped plan and build. All of that employs people and provides infrastructure. Blankets and water purifiers are investments too but we can't expect to give them those and then they somehow make the leap to crash landing TVs on the Moon. (I do object to them crashing stuff into the Moon when they are still getting aid. I'll bet that probe cost a lot of money.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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No matter how advanced we think we are, we still can't write proper English. -Saurabh
If you think that's bad, you should hear many of your compatriots try to speak it. :-D I recently spent a few days with a tech support engineer from one of the companies I purchase equipment from and it was horrendous. I could understand about 20% of what he said, but that was a vast improvement over trying to communicate with him over the telephone. Of course, he's only been here two years; I've known others equally difficult to understand who have lived and worked here 20 years or more. A brilliant young man, by the way, and I look forward to working with him for many years. But it may be less painful if I learn a bit of Indian first. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Why is advancement linked to being able to communicate in English??
It isn't, except by the ignorant. But we all sometimes make unreasonable assumptions based on irrelevant observations; it's part of the common instinct we all have of fearing what is different. Fortunately, first impressions can be overcome if we choose to do so. Congratulations, India!
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Simon Stevens wrote:
get to the moon when we've never even done it ourselves.
Outsourced.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Simon
