The Desi & Byrone Thread (27 Viewers)

[Martin]

Bah, now you just made me look silly.

Yeah, it is.

 

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[Zé Tahir]

Ska vi ta över tråden Martin? Va säger du?

 

[icemaη]

Ska vi ta över tråden Martin? Va säger du?

HINDI/URDU Matha***** HINDI/URDU!!!

 

[Martin]

Ska vi ta över tråden Martin? Va säger du?

I have another idea.

Hindi or Urdu, which is better? Ready, set, fight! :boxing:

 

[Zé Tahir]

I'm not even going to argue that. There's no competition

 

[icemaη]

Urdu wins hands down.

 

[Martin]

Urdu wins hands down.

really, why?

 

[icemaη]

Its a beautiful language. In pure Urdu, even the obscenities sound sweet Hindi on the other hand is more crude. Even in Bollywood Hindi movies, the songs are generally written in Urdu.

 

[Martin]

What kind of keyboard do you guys have? Latin and Hindi characters both printed on it?

 

[icemaη]

Mine just has English

 

[Martin]

Mine just has English

So can you type Hindi with it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
No Hindi layout?

 

[icemaη]

I'm not sure. Hindi isn't even my mother tongue, so never bothered to even enquire...

 

[Martin]

So English it is then?

 

[icemaη]

My mother tongue is Malayalam. I end up speaking English mostly and Hindi sometimes, even though I am not very fluent in Hindi.

 

[Martin]

So your official language is English or?

 

[icemaη]

By official language you mean?

 

[Zé Tahir]

My mother tongue is Malayalam. I end up speaking English mostly and Hindi sometimes, even though I am not very fluent in Hindi.

I can understand that people have to speak English with each other in some cases because people come from different parts of India and hence speak a different language. But it annoys the heck out of me when I see Indians from the same city/area speaking in English with each other. It's like they have to prove to each other and others that they're 'educated' or something.

 

[Martin]

By official language you mean?

School, government, tv..

 

[icemaη]

I can understand that people have to speak English with each other in some cases because people come from different parts of India and hence speak a different language. But it annoys the heck out of me when I see Indians from the same city/area speaking in English with each other. It's like they have to prove to each other and others that they're 'educated' or something.

True. You can't say the same about Keralites though. If we find another one of our kind, we start speaking in Malayalam...

School, government, tv..

It varies from state to state. Hindi is the national language though for the central government.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

True. You can't say the same about Keralites though. If we find another one of our kind, we start speaking in Malayalam...

So true

As for me, it depends on what the other person is more comfortable with. Some people from the same city like to speak in English more than Kannada(my native language), so I speak in English with them.