Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 20/03/2025 18:44, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:03:21 -0700, John Ames wrote:
 

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:21:03 +0000 The Natural Philosopher
<tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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In India there are many languages, but everyone sort of speaks English.
Or has impoted lots of English words and phrases.

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Visited Portugal last spring - lots of great seafood and wine, but at
one point we ended up in an Indian restaurant on the outskirts of
Lisbon. My dad was doing his best to order (being fluent, if rusty, in
Portuguese,) but he and the proprietor were having difficulty getting
through to each other. Finally, the light goes on, and he asks: "do you
speak English?"
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Guy looks at him like he's from the moon. "I'm *Indian!*" he laughs.

 'Monsoon Wedding' came out before 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' but had a
similar feel as the wedding from hell. What I mostly remember is the
characters would be chattering along in what I presume was Hindi, switch
to English mid-sentence, and eventually go back to Hindi.
 

That is how Indians speak. I was watching a test match on an Indian feed with Indian commentary, It was presumably in Hindi with every third word 'maiden over' 'mid wicket' and so on
Educated Indians speak better English than the English educated people do in England
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