On 8 September 2010 11:59, Praseed Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all , > I did not understand the stuff ( fully) after this particular series of > post switched to malayalam. I am having great interest in Software > internationalization and Localization and was following the post with great > interest. >
You say, you are interested in localization and then whine when someone uses vernacular language? I suppose, Kochi is not the HQ of Britain. So what the hell, if someone uses Malayalam? > For technical communication , i think English is a better language. Its just a perception. You may be comfortable in English. Not me though. So whenever, I want to explain a point to my satisfaction, I would use my mother tongue. It is not my fault that, somebody living in this part of the world doesn't know or even doesn't care about the native dialect. > That is the reason i made a remark. I have studied Hindi, Sanskrit and > special english in my school days. With great difficulty , i had to pass a > malayalam 2nd paper during my school days. > If you did pass a malayalam 2nd paper in school, that itself makes it clear that, you know to at least read and comprehend. Then why and what is this fuzz about? > All people in this forum are not conversant in malayalam as some of them > may have settled here from other parts of the world. > I agree. But should I take it for granted that, every grand dady in this forum is a Keats or a Shelly? If you could not understand, its just fine. You could ask politely for it. Is it that every Gnu/Linux user in Kochi are proficient in English? @Praveen > When you were replying to Mahesh Aravind , i happen to see you coming up > with excellent english prose. So , i think you should do some soul searching > for your Linguistic "chavunism". I assume either you are a swathanthra > malayalam computing fellow or a DTP person. എത്രമാത്രം പുച്ഛത്തോടെയാണു് നിങ്ങള് സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിനെ കാണുന്നതു്? I feel ashamed of you. > ( I do agree that > the kind of things i do influence my world view as well ) > > Hope this clarifies my position ! > I wrote this only because, your clarification roused more questions than answers. I know I am rude here and I am deliberately rude. Sebin
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