On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, K. Ghosh wrote: > > was that in bengal ppl ... and not only the ppl at ilug ... tend to > > assume that everyone knows bengali. I have attended meetings earlier
> Are' Yaar!! Why not try and learn the Bengali Language, its wonderful. > I attend the ilug-Hyd and many times the situation is similar. But I am This is my last mail on this thread as this is going way way OT, I guess Ken's mail just reinforced the bias that Sharninder was talking about. But the point is one may not have the time or interest to learn another language and people should be ready to acknowledge that. But i would differ from Sharninder's view, its just that bengalis, mostly are'nt very comfortable speaking other languages ( filmi babumoshai stereotypes aside ;) OTOH i had been to pune's LUG, there the conversation used to be almost allways in english. But sometimes an excited animated puneri conversation would break up between me and a new guy sitting next to me. Nods, smiles and sharing of the excitement usually got the message across. -- sreangsu ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
