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06 Feb 2010, 12:13 pm

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Poor elephant... :(


You didn't ask what happened to me :cry:


Whatever it is you probably deserved it.

Remember an elephant never forgets.... :shameonyou:


Ok lets not fight, I was being sarcastic :twisted: . My mistake.

Lets be friends. Where are you from?


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06 Feb 2010, 12:33 pm

Anywhere but here... :wink:


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06 Feb 2010, 1:32 pm

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Anywhere but here... :wink:


haha very funny... But seriously where are you from.

If I say honestly - I did not understood your reply :scratch: , I thought it to be funny. I am very bad at understanding intentions. You can call me dumb, if you like. Thats why i write these type of precautionary lines as I am very bad at expressing as well.

Please elaborate...

:elephant: the elephant has come to say Hi!! ! And that elephant was me :)


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06 Feb 2010, 2:26 pm

No worries I'm just playn' with ya. :)

I'm from the land of the poor aka...the U.S...


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06 Feb 2010, 3:09 pm

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No worries I'm just playn' with ya. :)

I'm from the land of the poor aka...the U.S...


U.S. poor??????? GDP=$14.2 Trillion US dollars. You call that poor how generous of you :o

What do you do, MissConstrue? BTW whats your real name?


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06 Feb 2010, 3:32 pm

I have a feeling the U.S. is headed that direction anyway....

My name's Alice and I work in a clothing factory.. :(

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M'kay it's a department store..


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06 Feb 2010, 11:07 pm

Hi, I'm new here. I'm not Indian, but I was born and raised in India. I know India as it was 30 years ago, and I know a lot has changed.

The places I have lived there are Assam, Mussoorie, and also Hyderabad (actually Secunderabad) for just a year.



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07 Feb 2010, 4:01 am

AndyG wrote:
Hi, I'm new here. I'm not Indian, but I was born and raised in India. I know India as it was 30 years ago, and I know a lot has changed.

The places I have lived there are Assam, Mussoorie, and also Hyderabad (actually Secunderabad) for just a year.


Hi Andy.... Welcome to WP :)


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08 Feb 2010, 2:47 am

As I knew India, compared to the USA, traditions were of very high importance, and social rules less forgiving to those who "broke" them. This has probably changed some since I was there 30 years ago, but still I imagine being an AS adult in India might be more challenging in some ways.

There is one way I think it might be easier in India. Indians can debate many types of things without it coming to conflict, even if the viewpoints are opposite. Opinions can be stated as fact without the need to word them carefully (it is understood that what is one person's fact need not be watered down or qualified when expressed to others). I heard many religious discussions between people of different religions, and they rarely came to argument.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm off.



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08 Feb 2010, 3:11 am

One thing that got me in trouble at times, after I moved to the USA at the age of 16, was a certain conversation pattern that I grew up with in India, that did not work here.

In India, I could make what sounded like a statement, then just by adding one word at the end, make it into a question. Even a long statement could be followed with a "right?", "eh?" or "na?", that made the whole thing into a question. Here in the USA, by the time you get to the end of a "statement", it's too late to turn it into a question. It must be identified as a question first. It took me many years to break this habit that in India made conversation easier, but in the USA caused some miscommunications that were not fixable 8O



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08 Feb 2010, 3:46 am

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One thing that got me in trouble at times, after I moved to the USA at the age of 16, was a certain conversation pattern that I grew up with in India, that did not work here.

In India, I could make what sounded like a statement, then just by adding one word at the end, make it into a question. Even a long statement could be followed with a "right?", "eh?" or "na?", that made the whole thing into a question. Here in the USA, by the time you get to the end of a "statement", it's too late to turn it into a question. It must be identified as a question first. It took me many years to break this habit that in India made conversation easier, but in the USA caused some miscommunications that were not fixable 8O


I suppose its because of differences in the way one thinks. Right? :)

Most people in India don't have english as a primary language, they tend to think in their mother tongue and directly translate it into english. e.g.
In hindi I would think "Ye baarish ka mausam hai. haina?" now that becomes a question. Direct translation "This is rainy season, right?" :) instead of "Is it rainy season?".

And most time it is done to take an opinion on a topic you already know or maybe trying to be oversmart ( I said it you confirm it ). :D

Now I am not a linguistic so can't say it is a right example or not but that was the best I could think of at this moment.


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08 Feb 2010, 3:54 am

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I have a feeling the U.S. is headed that direction anyway....

My name's Alice and I work in a clothing factory.. :(

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M'kay it's a department store..


Alice, You seem to be confused between a clothing factory and a department store :)


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08 Feb 2010, 4:45 am

Sabu wrote:
I suppose its because of differences in the way one thinks. Right? :)

Most people in India don't have english as a primary language, they tend to think in their mother tongue and directly translate it into english. e.g.
In hindi I would think "Ye baarish ka mausam hai. haina?" now that becomes a question. Direct translation "This is rainy season, right?" :) instead of "Is it rainy season?".

And most time it is done to take an opinion on a topic you already know or maybe trying to be oversmart ( I said it you confirm it ). :D


That makes a lot of sense, right on Sabu :) . I also got that from Canadian friends there, who use the "eh" (go Canada :) ). I have a hard enough time expressing myself and the adjustment to another culture made it harder.



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05 Mar 2010, 4:47 am

I have logged onto this Frappr map, so that others can find me -
http://www.frappr.com/wrongplanet

Maybe you guys would like to join in as well?



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05 Mar 2010, 7:02 am

Check this out guys. Awesome piece of misinformation!

We don't "have Asperger's", we are Brahmins!



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09 Mar 2010, 12:31 pm

I just lived in India for four months, trying to do an ethnography on Indian autistics. Since I was limited to Visag due to particular issues, I couldn't go up to New Delhi for some autism outreach groups I had heard about. I would have gone down to talk to the people at NIMHANS in Bangalore, but no such luck.

@AndyG: From what I found, you're pretty well spot-on...