Non-English Language Section In Code Project
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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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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.
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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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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
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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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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â±£ompey wrote:
Although their interest in Cricket has nose-dived over the last two weeks for some reason.
I knew that was coming from you.
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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
Regards, Nish
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Much the same here with accents. There is Jock, Scouse, Geordie, Carrot Cruncher, Brummie, Mummerset, Cockney, Tyke, Taff, Mick, Estuary, Sarf etc.
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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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Nice. :laugh:
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The thing about the Chinese section is that five minutes after you post a message, you feel you need to post another one.
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That gave me a giggle. :-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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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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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
The Canadians are the worst. They haven't figured out yet if they are British or American or French
FTFY.
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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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But... but... but... think of the stereotype, man! Learn it! ;)
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Just realized that there is a non-English language section in Code Project (it's the last one in the main menu on the left side). I have never noticed it before, it could have been there a long time. There are currently two items in the section, Chinese topics and Indian topics. Most of Chinese topics are in Mandarin or Cantonese, can't tell. As expected. All Indian topics are in English, which is again hardly suprising. Strangely, Indian section is listed under 'non-English' section. It might be worth changing the title in that menu ...
There have, also, been several posts entirely in any of the different Indian languages in there, so why should it not be non-English?
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. I am disappointed in the lack of the Cricket chat over there I was expecting it to be like the WC in terms of Volume of posts.
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Much the same here with accents. There is Jock, Scouse, Geordie, Carrot Cruncher, Brummie, Mummerset, Cockney, Tyke, Taff, Mick, Estuary, Sarf etc.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Cockney
That is the only one I know. Thanks to the CCC, I've learnt I need to remove the h from the have and use 'ave in the solution.
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But... but... but... think of the stereotype, man! Learn it! ;)
Marc A. Brown wrote:
But... but... but... think of the stereotype, man! Learn it!
True, sometimes you have to go with the stereotype. For instance I have to pretend I am a devout Hindu who worships the cow, so I always stand up and pray before devouring my filet mignon.
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Exactly! We obviously need an Australian sectionm because it is clearly a different language.
