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pash
11-03-2006, 08:40 PM
English is wonderful! It can take in so many new words. I like this new one:

To be bangalored, yet to find mention in a dictionary, reflects the sentiments of those who have been laid off in the U.S. because their jobs have moved to Bangalore. “I am a software developer who is about to be bangalored.

http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/2143.cfm#down
Sury
11-05-2006, 06:49 AM
But what will that verb transform to, now that Bangalore is Bengaluru? (http://in.news.yahoo.com/051212/43/61iag.html) I wonder. ;)

Sury
pash
11-05-2006, 11:59 AM
But what will that verb transform to, now that Bangalore is Bengaluru? (http://in.news.yahoo.com/051212/43/61iag.html) I wonder. ;)

Sury

Time will tell.
jpserra
11-07-2006, 05:22 AM
Bangalores: The ugly bad guys in the movie The Fifth Element.
moth
11-07-2006, 05:33 AM
Bangalores: The ugly bad guys in the movie The Fifth Element.
I thought that was Mangalores...?
jpserra
11-07-2006, 03:41 PM
I thought that was Mangalores...?

Oh, yeah. Same thing!

Just kidding. Isn't that where the mangalores are from; Bangalore? It's a wonderful word. Just lie down on the couch and repete it. Bangalore. Bangalore. Bangalore.

John
Kudra
11-07-2006, 08:13 PM
I love how Bangalore sounds. Bengaluru... eh, not so much. But then, I was one of the people who resisted the Bombay to Mumbai change as well. Wonder what'll be next. Not Delhi I hope!
Unique
11-07-2006, 10:46 PM
I love how Bangalore sounds. Bengaluru... eh, not so much. But then, I was one of the people who resisted the Bombay to Mumbai change as well. Wonder what'll be next. Not Delhi I hope!


Do you mean to say Bombay isn't Bombay any more? Good grief. No wonder I keep getting lost.
Kudra
11-08-2006, 09:18 AM
Yep, it's Mumbai now. And Calcutta is Kolkata. :D
ATP
11-08-2006, 03:38 PM
As part of some work I am doing, I came across a website dealing with this. I read it briefly, but the gist appears that there now seems a strong groundswell of sentiment in India to 'reclaim' the names of Indian cities, and convert them into names derived from the local language (?). Some see it as the 'final nail in the coffin' for India's British colonial history.
pash
11-08-2006, 03:47 PM
Yep, it's Mumbai now. And Calcutta is Kolkata. :D

And Bharat?
Kudra
11-09-2006, 08:48 PM
And Bharat?

No, that's just another name for India. The Hindi version.