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2008-08-13 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 "he felicitates himself..."

Limber!

Posted by Josh Poodle2238 2008-08-13 07:16|| 2008-08-13 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 What language does this guy write in?

Posted by ed 2008-08-13 08:19|| 2008-08-13 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Hindi english, is my guess.

And yes, that's a recognized dialect. For the most part it's quite readable by speakers of standard English but there are a lot of usages we find overly formal and some vocabulary that is opaque to most Americans or Brits.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-13 08:30|| 2008-08-13 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 He is Pakistani.
Probably a native Urdu or (more likely) Punjabi speaker. His English will be similar to that used by Indians though.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-13 08:45|| 2008-08-13 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 What a rambling string of sentences put end to end. They don't make a damned bit of sense to me, I'd cut them off and throw them to the dogs if it were me, supply road be damned. You can't tell me there is no other way to get out from under these useless, two faced turncoats. We've pumped money into that country in such obscene amounts that we should be ashamed to admit it. And what's it gone to? We don't even know, we never even asked to see the books probably.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 11:30|| 2008-08-13 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 It's no worse than some of the commentary here over the years.

Posted by Pappy 2008-08-13 15:23|| 2008-08-13 15:23|| Front Page Top

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