China & India: To know each other better

by **akhilis2cool** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:53 am

india has always been a secular country and will be that way. it has always accepted various religions even bfore the english men came along. but the term secularism came into use after they left. its there habit of adding an ism to anything they dont like.

we never see the leaders of those nations (uk us etc) using that term do v?

by ZC » Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:54 am

akhilis2cool wrote:india has always been a secular country and will be that way. it has always accepted various religions even bfore the english men came along. but the term secularism came into use after they left. its there habit of adding an ism to anything they dont like.

we never see the leaders of those nations (uk us etc) using that term do v?

exactly..........very true

by **CtrlAltDel** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:38 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:india has always been a secular country and will be that way. it has always accepted various religions even bfore the english men came along.

it very true. most of the communal divide we see till today have their origins in the Brit policy of divide n rule. That also encouraged growth of mass-fundamentalism, an unheard of phenomenon in those days.
thats why that word has become very important and relevant in the Indian context, given our heterogenous population.
now the electoral votebank-ism (-ism again!) has distorted the meaning of secularism and apart from the politicians, we have to blame our common public too for that. the people allowed the politicians to sow prejudice against other religions.
religion is an abstract concept. allowing that to dominate one's actions, esp compared with national duties, is truely crazy...

akhilis2cool wrote:...but the term secularism came into use after they left.

'corz!

its an English language term afterall

we never see the leaders of those nations (uk us etc) using that term do v?[/quote]

by **akhilis2cool** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:06 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
akhilis2cool wrote:...but the term secularism came into use after they left.
'corz! its an English language term afterall

I knew u wld say that. :twisted:

but lets get back china and india...that dude xiao seems 2 have vanished since the topic got diverted (by me :oops:

)

by **Xiaowind** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:26 am

It's funny that you have too many religions whereas we have too less: Communism loses its market, Buddhism is old fashioned, what's people's belief? May be Money :?:

akhilis2cool wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:
akhilis2cool wrote:...but the term secularism came into use after they left.
'corz! its an English language term afterall

I knew u wld say that.

but lets get back china and india...that dude xiao seems 2 have vanished since the topic got diverted (by me )

I couldn't access this website until a moment ago

it's annoying...

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:12 am

Xiaowind wrote:It's funny that you have too many religions whereas we have too less: Communism loses its market, Buddhism is old fashioned, what's people's belief? May be Money

"Money-ism" would be the only 'ism that has the power to enforce world peace...no one likes to battle it out when they have a regular paying job and a comfortable living!

Xiaowind wrote:I couldn't access this website until a moment ago it's annoying...

ya..since last almost 2 days...something wrong with server i think...atleast its up now!

by **akhilis2cool** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:31 am

CtrlAltDel wrote:ya..since last almost 2 days...something wrong with server i think...atleast its up now!

y`day it was painfully slow.

it was taking 5 minutes to open a page.

mm made a post in shout it out which appeared on my comp after 30 mins!!!

thankfully its normal today

by **Xiaowind** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:59 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:y`day it was painfully slow.
it was taking 5 minutes to open a page.

I couldn't open any page all the time... i'll try to sue the forum server for racial discrimination :lol:

by **azazel** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:02 pm

yea.. workin normally now..

sab log kaafi bechayn the hunge kal..

as if on life support :lol:

by **xiaowind** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:04 pm

azazel wrote:sab log kaafi bechayn the hunge kal..

What's this?

by **akhilis2cool** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:09 pm

xiaowind wrote:
azazel wrote:sab log kaafi bechayn the hunge kal..

What's this?

Thats a Hindi language line written in english.....meaning everybody must have been restless yesterday

by **Xiaowind** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:53 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:
xiaowind wrote:
azazel wrote:sab log kaafi bechayn the hunge kal..

What's this?

Thats a Hindi language line written in english.....meaning everybody must have been restless yesterday

Can somebody shed light on Hindi language? Are these words such as "kaafi" giving pronunciation or meaning? Any links for initiatory Hindi learning? Thx. :roll:

by **akhilis2cool** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:56 pm

Xiaowind wrote:
akhilis2cool wrote:
xiaowind wrote:
azazel wrote:sab log kaafi bechayn the hunge kal..

What's this?

Thats a Hindi language line written in english.....meaning everybody must have been restless yesterday

Can somebody shed light on Hindi language? Are these words such as "kaafi" giving pronunciation or meaning? Any links for initiatory Hindi learning? Thx.

that will be difficult...actually when u want to learn a new language u shld first learn the *ahem* abuses....lekin (but) we cant do it here yaar (friend)

c tot u 2 wrds already

by **Xiaowind** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:35 pm

OMG! I got this vocabulary:

I am getting muddle-headed!

Phonetic language is hard to learn without grasp of its pronunciation.

by **akhilis2cool** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:10 pm

Hey Xiao...wht u have got is absolutely useless.....

u want b able to learn any thing that way

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:30 pm

Xiaowind wrote:OMG! I got this vocabulary:
I am getting muddle-headed!

me too...i'll forget what all i know.

without knowing how to pronounce the sounds u're all at sea...

dont go for learning the script, try to learn the spoken language first. its easier later to learn the script.

but first as Akhil says, learn some abuses :wink:

. they are the first words one shud know in any new language

by **xiaowind** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:55 pm

thx to akhilis2cool and CtrlAltDel for your advising.

I want to learn Hindi just for the purpose that i can post some simple Hindi sentence everywhere to show that I AM COOL. :lol:

But if i post abuse words such as *ahem*( mean what? f*ck? ), i'm afraid of getting abused.

by **Mayavi Morpheus** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:48 pm

*ahem*( mean what? f*ck? )

xia, What the Tsao!?

woko. :wink:

by **CtrlAltDel** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:00 am

xiaowind wrote:... abuse words such as *ahem*( mean what? f*ck? ),

hey *ahem* means nothing! its just a sound of clearing the throat...and used in english language only... :lol:

by **akhilis2cool** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:04 am

CtrlAltDel wrote:
xiaowind wrote:... abuse words such as *ahem*( mean what? f*ck? ),
hey *ahem* means nothing! its just a sound of clearing the throat...and used in english language only...

Xiao Bhai (brother) if ahem were an abuse the it would have been writen like a*** :wink:

by **Xiaowind** » Sat May 01, 2004 7:41 pm

Mayavi Morpheus wrote:
*ahem*( mean what? f*ck? )

xia, What the Tsao!?
woko.

They was supposed to be "National abuse of China", and was used so often that their original meaning were ignored. In fact, you can use it as interjections such as "Oops".

by **akhilis2cool** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:17 am

Xiaowind wrote: They was supposed to be "National abuse of China", and was used so often that their original meaning were ignored. In fact, you can use it as interjections such as "Oops".

hey Xiao...thanks for updating our knowledge of chinese...till now the only words we knew were....Hakka, Chop sui.....manchurian....

by **Xiaowind** » Sun May 02, 2004 12:50 pm

akhilis2cool wrote:
Xiaowind wrote: They was supposed to be "National abuse of China", and was used so often that their original meaning were ignored. In fact, you can use it as interjections such as "Oops".

hey Xiao...thanks for updating our knowledge of chinese...till now the only words we knew were....Hakka, Chop sui.....manchurian....

You are welcome yaar

Three dialects are mostly known to foreigners: Mandarine, Cantonese, and Hakka. They have different pronunciation but share the same Chinese character. Mandarine is official language and most widely used; Cantonese is used in Guangdong province and Hongkong; Hakka is used in Fujian province and Taiwan. (offical language of Taiwan is also Mandarine)

by **akhilis2cool** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:31 am

hey Xiao bhai (brother) thanks for another update....all I can say is....Hindi is the official national language of india..and english is the un official National language!!!

apart from this we have abt...25-30 different languages...so any school going Kid in india will atleast speak 2 languages....Hindi + english or his mother tounge.

my brother can speak 5 languages very fluently......there r people who speak even more languages..... :roll:

by **justforfun** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:55 pm

For xiao

some sites where u can learn hindi

http://www.docnmail.com/learnmore/language/hindi.htm

http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/lin ... -hindi.htm

http://www.ukindia.com/

http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#hindi

bad hindi ( in English) to Hindi translator

http://www.soft32.com/download_13757.html

english to hindi dictionary

http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/hindi.html

i got all these from google may be u can find more....

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