Non-English Language Section In Code Project
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That's the problem with all these extra words, you can never tell if you're being insulted or not.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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There is also a cultural difference in regards to humour. The European/American slant (predominantly Anglo-Saxon) leads to a universality in culture, humour, outlook and disposition. (Alas the same cannot be said for spelling!) So whilst the GIT is predominantly English by language, it is not English in interests. (Except for Cricket).
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Beat me to it. Also said better than I could have.
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Although their interest in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some reason. ;)
Damn you! :-D
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Dalek Dave wrote:
What language do the Bengali people speak?
Bangla!
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That's the problem with all these extra words, you can never tell if you're being insulted or not.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
That's the problem with all these extra words, you can never tell if you're being insulted or not.
It depends on the situation. If you are getting stuff like this in an email from a call center employee or from a counterpart in India, you are not being insulted. Here on CP, yes you are! :-D
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Dalek Dave wrote:
What language do the Bengali people speak?
Bangla!
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Although their interest in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some reason. ;)
Ᵽompey wrote:
Although their interest ability in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some reason.
ftfy
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:laugh:
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Ok, there might be locality element there, but it's still English, isn't it?
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Not most, maybe a few. A large number of Indian CPians do not speak or understand Hindi (including myself).
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The Canadians are the worst. They haven't figured out yet if they are British or American and so use a mix of both! And try to hide this lack of verbal originality by adding eh to everything. :-D
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Cool, eh.
...and I have extensive experience writing computer code, including OIC, BTW, BRB, IMHO, LMAO, ROFL, TTYL.....
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Ᵽompey wrote:
Although their interest ability in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some reason.
ftfy
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
ability in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some
If you head over the GIT, I would tell you in about 40 posts (all using abusive language), they never really had any ability at all! :mad:
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modified on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 9:24 AM
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Not most, maybe a few. A large number of Indian CPians do not speak or understand Hindi (including myself).
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Then this page [^]may be a useful guide for the non-Indians amongst us. Surprisingly, most of the items mentioned are also in quite common usage in the UK, though many do sound slightly old fashioned.
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Then this page [^]may be a useful guide for the non-Indians amongst us. Surprisingly, most of the items mentioned are also in quite common usage in the UK, though many do sound slightly old fashioned.
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
Idioms and popular words/phrases - Rubber - Pencil eraser This should raise many an eyebrow here. :-D
Too much of heaven can bring you underground Heaven can always turn around Too much of heaven, our life is all hell bound Heaven, the kill that makes no sound
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Then this page [^]may be a useful guide for the non-Indians amongst us. Surprisingly, most of the items mentioned are also in quite common usage in the UK, though many do sound slightly old fashioned.
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
Yeah, but again that assumes that all Indians use English derived from a Hindi grammar base. Depending on your Indian native language, your adaptation of English will change. It's kinda like how here in the States, everyone assumes there is a single British accent when that's not true. Similarly Indian accents/English-dialects are many in number. And in India, people from different states mock the English accents used in other states. Yeah, we love each other out there! :-D
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Idioms and popular words/phrases - Rubber - Pencil eraser This should raise many an eyebrow here. :-D
Too much of heaven can bring you underground Heaven can always turn around Too much of heaven, our life is all hell bound Heaven, the kill that makes no sound
Leading to the phrase about a guy who knocked up his girl - "he had plenty of lead in his pencil, but didn't have a rubber on the end of it"
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Dejan Petrovic wrote:
Ok, there might be locality element there, but it's still English, isn't it?
Yeah it is, just as American English is English too. But the Brits won't accept either of those, and continue to insist that their version is the only version. So the rest of the world just humor them and pretend to agree with that! :-D
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
So the rest of the world just humor them and pretend to agree with that!
That was worth more than the '5' I was able to give. :)
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Idioms and popular words/phrases - Rubber - Pencil eraser This should raise many an eyebrow here. :-D
Too much of heaven can bring you underground Heaven can always turn around Too much of heaven, our life is all hell bound Heaven, the kill that makes no sound
Abhinav S wrote:
Idioms and popular words/phrases - Rubber - Pencil eraser
This should raise many an eyebrow here.My rubber is worn out from repeated usage. My parents got me this for Christmas. Damn! :-D
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I haven't noticed too many unusual expressions or words on that forum. One could argue that Australian English is another language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdjuq7bhSUs[^]
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