I was looking for levels and kinds of arguments you could possibly have on internet, just to equip myself with information on how to answer “you are just stupid!” etc. I am still looking but, I found this categorisation on Paul Graham’s site about levels of disagreements. Worth bookmarking them: DH0. Name-calling. This is the … Continue reading How to argue
Category: language
I was a part of Wikipedia logo fix!
Alright, here is the story. Some four years back New York Times wrote about Wikipedia logo, reporting two symbols rendered were not correct. One of them was Japanese and the other was our own Devanagari used by many Indian languages including Sanskrit and Hindi. That was the first time probably someone had a good look … Continue reading I was a part of Wikipedia logo fix!
Can non-Indians win spelling bee?
Can non-Indians win spelling bee? Beats me too, How can Indians learn million languages of their own and learn English additionally to an extent of winning spelling bee? Apparently they do, with “yemm..wo..wo and then yenn”. If you look at other side of this, Spelling bee cannot be conducted in any Indian languages. Only English … Continue reading Can non-Indians win spelling bee?
oota ayta
"Saaptaccahaa..?""uNu Kazhinyo."kabar kecho..""kalei vanakkam..""kee gal he..""nandri""bhojanam ayinda .." etc. etc. .. But nobody ever asked me "oota ayta, saar". whats wrong with my language yaar! update: In depth analysis
ರಾಮೇಶ್ವರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದ್ರೂ…
"ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಸಾರ್" "ಹೆಲೊ..???" "ನಾನು ದಿವಾಕರ್ , ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ ಸಾರ್.. ನೀವು ಬೆಂಗ್ಳೂರಾ?" "ದಿವಾಕರ್ ...?? ಯಾರು ಗೊತ್ತಾಗ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ" "ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕಾಲರ್ ಟ್ಯೂನ್ ಕನ್ನಡ ಕೇಳಿ , ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು ಅಂದ್ಕೊಂಡೆ.. ಡಿಸ್ಟರ್ಬ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ನಾ ಸಾರ್?" "ಇಲ್ಲ ಪರ್ವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ... ಏನು ಬೇಕಾಗಿತ್ತು ಹೇಳಿ" "ಸಾರ್ , ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ... ಐಸಿಐಸಿಐ ಕಾರ್ಡು ಇದೆಯಾ ಸಾರ್" " ...???"
The Bach 