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  • LondonManc
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    I like asking Germans to spell ypsilon






    (for those of you who don't know, ypsilon is how you say the letter y in German)
    You can imagine it as a Python sketch

    "Fritz, how do you spell ypsilon?"
    "Ypsilon..."
    "Yes, ypsilon"
    "Ypsilon..."
    .....

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  • darmstadt
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    I like asking Germans to spell ypsilon






    (for those of you who don't know, ypsilon is how you say the letter y in German)

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Bunk View Post
    Got to hand it to GG's sockiemaster, that's some good trolling.
    That sounded like an admission to me.

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  • Bunk
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    Got to hand it to GG's sockiemaster, that's some good trolling.

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  • BrilloPad
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    What I like is that stuff in Hindi cannot be directly translated into English. Ask your Indian colleague to explain Jai Ho - as in the title of the song from Slumdog Millionaire.

    Highly amusing as they try to explain that in English!

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  • GreyWolf
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    Originally posted by alluvial View Post
    Why is it racist?
    Because some po-faced, middle-class prick has decided it is.

    Control the language, control the people. Oh, and turn a blind eye to the mass-rape of white kids. That helps to keeps the oiks in their place.

    My response is every little tulip crying racist from now on is one word - Rotherham.

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  • Pondlife
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    Originally posted by Freaki Li Cuatre View Post
    Sorry, don't see how this is racist.
    F L C is back.

    Now, where is Pachers?

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  • Freaki Li Cuatre
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    Sorry, don't see how this is racist.

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  • alluvial
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    Originally posted by fullyautomatix View Post
    This sockie is good. Knows all the tricks in the box. Want to gain brownie points off the forum ? no problem, just post any made up bollox about Indians and its bound to gain a few fans.

    I miss Gricer, bring him up, at least he wasnt trying to be funny posting racist crap.
    Why is it racist?

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  • fullyautomatix
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    This sockie is good. Knows all the tricks in the box. Want to gain brownie points off the forum ? no problem, just post any made up bollox about Indians and its bound to gain a few fans.

    I miss Gricer, bring him up, at least he wasnt trying to be funny posting racist crap.

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  • TykeMerc
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    I miss zoco.

    lol, that funny little racist. How we laughed at his continuous threads about Indians.

    Still, he's only going to be gone a week. I wonder what we'll do in the meantime?

    Anyone?
    Tricky, maybe some other sockpuppet of the same unfunny, uninventive, negative charisma sad sack individual will pop up and post in a similar style.

    You never know they may have a desperately feeble typing affectation and carry the bulltulip fantasy to the point of assuming a fake female personality, but we might be lucky and dodge those particular bullets.

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  • Bunk
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    I miss zoco.

    lol, that funny little racist. How we laughed at his continuous threads about Indians.

    Still, he's only going to be gone a week. I wonder what we'll do in the meantime?

    Anyone?
    If only there was someone exactly like him who could fill in. Oh well

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  • Pondlife
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    I miss zoco.

    lol, that funny little racist. How we laughed at his continuous threads about Indians.

    Still, he's only going to be gone a week. I wonder what we'll do in the meantime?

    Anyone?

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  • Gittins Gal
    started a topic Indian Phonetics

    Indian Phonetics

    For want of a better thread title...

    I was chatting with an Indian colleague and he was telling me about the many different languages that are spoken in India. His mother tongue is Hindi, though he says he can also speak a bit of Gujurati, but he was explaining how somebody from India would pronounce letters in the western alphabet. A "w" is pronounced like a "v" and vice versa - I'm sure we've all heard that. In fact I remember being in stitches in a security meeting many moons ago when an attendee was expressing possible security violations on the Wax Wee-Em-Ess system for which he was responsible.

    But anyway, I digress. He also explained to me that the letter "x" has a "ksh" sound - so the word taxi would be pronounced by many Indians as "takshi".

    Hearing this, I had to restrain myself from enquiring as to how one was supposed to pronounce the name of our newest team member sat opposite whose name, I noticed from looking at his badge, was Bindhu Dixit

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