Happy new year 2066 Bikram Sambat (B.S)

ktm TechMan

Happy New Year 2066 to all CPians. May this NEW YEAR bring peace and prosperity to Nepal and everywhere else on Earth. P.S. Bikram Sambat(B.S.) is the official calendar of Nepal and is used in Nepal and India. It was established by a king named Bikram Adhittya.

ktm TechMan

But the boring part, No HOLIDAY in our company. :(

Vikram A Punathambekar

Happy New Year to you from a guy called Vikram :)

Cheers, Vıkram.

Carpe Diem.

Lost User

Happy new year :)

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Gary Wheeler

Thank you. Best wishes to you and yours for the coming year :rose:.

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Lost User

Happy New Year to all of Nepal! Happy New April 14th to everybody else! Oh, wait... What about Easter? Ah, just forget it! Too many holidays at the same time, and I'll just be playing Warcraft all night. :)

Rajesh R Subramanian

sk8er_boy287 wrote:

I'll just be playing Warcraft all night. Smile

Are you trying to lure me back into it? I'm not falling for your crap! :mad: :-D

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Happy new year to you. :)

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Nish Nishant

ktm TechMan wrote:

It was established by a king named Bikram Adhittya.

Interesting spelling. In Kerala, the name's written (and pronounced) as Vikram Adithya.

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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

Happy New Year to you from a guy called Vikram

That's what I first noted, how the OP spelled it with a B (and I assume he pronounces it with a b-sound too).

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Are you going to give me a shock by telling that you didn't know Bengali (and a few other languages) does not have 'V' (the akshar 'va'). 'B' gets used instead. Bery interesting? :)

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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Are you going to give me a shock by telling that you didn't know Bengali (and a few other languages) does not have 'V' (the akshar 'va'). 'B' gets used instead. Bery interesting?

Wow - no I didn't know that. One of my best friends from school is Bengali and he didn't have this va-handicap, but then he grew up in Trivandrum. So Bengalis would say "Birendar Sehwag and Benus Billiams" ? I find that very hard to believe. :~

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

You've obviously not encountered Philipinos that were fresh off of the boat and were speaking English. They speak perfect English, but the V is substituted with a B.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

You've obviously not encountered Philipinos that were fresh off of the boat and were speaking English. They speak perfect English, but the V is substituted with a B.

Oh okay, I didn't know that either. Reminds me of how in Malayalam (my native tongue) we have a particular sound that cannot be written in English-script. It's written as zha but it's not pronounced how it reads. Only people who grew up in my state can pronounce that sound. Even other Indians would struggle to repeat the sound if we tried to teach them.

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Rama Krishna Vavilala

Yes. In Nepal, Bihar and some regions of UP, V is pronounced as B. So Vikram = Bikram. It's mostly in northern areas. It's like "southern" accent here in the US. It's different as you may have seen.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

particular sound that cannot be written in English-script.

Oh man, there are tons of examples like that :) I could name examples in Arabic, Persian, Mandarin (I speak a bit having lived/worked in China for a year) and I'm sure there are zillions I don't know about. Languages are a gorgeous thing. If I had the time, I'd learn as many as I could. And not just the C/C++/C#/F# variety either ;p

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

If I had the time, I'd learn as many as I could.

Me too. Though I think it may have been easier had I tried that as a child. After a certain age it's not easy to pick up new languages.

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Eytukan

If I remember it right, in Russian, the letter "B" sounds "V" in english, "va" kinda. I guess "Vunic" would look something like "BHИK". Not sure if it's exactly right.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

So Bengalis would say "Birendar Sehwag and Benus Billiams" ?

Actually, yes. But some of them learn to use 'va' as well (I don't know how, perhaps they travel, work outside their state, etc.,), while the rest of them don't.

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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Actually, yes. But some of them learn to use 'va' as well (I don't know how, perhaps they travel, work outside their state, etc.,), while the rest of them don't.

Interesting, very interesting.

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