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Why is there an Indian and Chinese forum under "Non-English" but nothing for everyone else? The Chinese one is deserted and the Indian one is mostly English anyway - though most of the content is incomprehensible to me
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Because those two forums were specifically requested years ago.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Because those two forums were specifically requested years ago.
I want a Strine forum.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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 Don't Strines speak (a dialect of) English?
(Or at least of Cockney  )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Mick - I'll leave this ignorant buffoon to your delicate administrations.
Crikey.
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Chris Maunder
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Don't Strines speak (a dialect of) English?
We'd much rather you didn't tell anyone that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, well, now that the Bad Word filter has been upgraded it's a possibility.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Yeah, well, now that the Bad Word filter has been upgraded it's a possibility. |
Didn't we play this game a few months back and I broke it again without trying anything sneaky?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yeah - but I fixed that almost immediately. Aren't you paying attention?
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Yeah - but I fixed that almost immediately. Aren't you paying attention?
I noticed you didn't reply to any of my taunting at the time.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You not noticing I neutered your swearing, me not replying to your taunting.
Mate: we have a major communication problem. We should see someone about this.
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Chris Maunder
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I see, just seemed strange that's all. Although these are the most populous nations, the number of internet users is surely greater in European countries.
The Chinese one's probably blocked over there I presume, or everyone uses the local forums. Maybe a Japanese forum would attract more visitors. Or maybe not, they're sure to have plenty of their own places they haunt already.
Maybe one catch-all international forum? The Babel forum? Of course that would be a nightmare to moderate.
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At one stage we had a bunch if chinese trying to get support in their language.
As for the indian one, unless you love cricket don't bother, that one is cultural rather than language. I think it was requested just to get the cricket out of the Lounge, 5 page threads discussing the attributes of player was not interesting to any but those participating.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's mainly politics now. You'll be hard pressed to find any cricket. The 5 page threads you mention were never in the lounge I don't think. The creation of Git coincided with the cricket World Cup so there was a lot of cricket in there to start with.
See Petes response for the true original reason.
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I was personally rather disappointed at the lack of cricket discussion there during the England India series.
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Yeah partly my fault, my current domestic situation means I haven't watched much cricket and wasn't really following it. I think the first test I only checked the result when the second test started.
You should have roasted me and tagged me in a post to get the discussion started.
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The Indian forum was requested because we had many new Indian users who joined and weren't aware of the etiquette of the lounge. Unfortunately they tended to get a lot of abuse. Having a separate forum helped introduce them to the expected behaviour of the site without them being attacked. This is a good thing.
This space for rent
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^ This is the correct answer.
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Most Indian posts I've seen start with "Dear sirs," that's certainly not the kind of etiquette you'll see in the lounge! 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Most Indian posts I've seen start with "Dear sirs," that's certainly not the kind of etiquette you'll see in the lounge!
Here's how I see it typically pan out.
Lounge-Indian : Dear sirs, could someone revert back to me and do the needful regarding this 101-level C# programming task that I am being paid for in my day job?
Lounge-Brit : (makes sarcastic response punning on arbitrary words from above response)
Lounge-American : F you, you took our jobs.
Lounge-Indian : How can you say that to me? How can you slap?
Lounge-Brit : (makes another joke only other Brits would find remotely funny about the American, hinting at his being a Trump supporter)
Lounge-American : F you (to the Brit), you all have horrible teeth.
Lounge-Indian : (resigns and decides to post in the GIT regarding Prime Minister's Modi's demonetization scheme)
Such a lovely place
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That's the best breakdown of the Lounge I've ever seen 
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With analysis skills like that, you should be promoted to senior architect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Most interestingly, today its main purpose is for people who moved from India to other countries to stay in touch with the happenings there. The active participants are all non-Indian citizens/residents.
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Sounds as good a reason for the forum as any.
This space for rent
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Well GIT is the only place where we NRI can interact and get a local perspective from RI
cheers,
Super
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