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#8225 10/26/00 08:06 AM
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So it's true - British irony can be too subtle for Americans at times....


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In reply to:

I am part Cherokee Indian (sorry, but it just sounds too silly to me to say "Cherokee native American")



Would it perhaps be simpler to say "I am part Cherokee"?


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What is that saying about "angels fear to tread" - I really wouldn't go there!!!


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Hi Shanks,

Sorry my response to this comes a bit late, but thanks for your fantastic write up about Bombay. More than half of what you wrote was news to me, although I belong to Maharashtra - or Goa to be more precise. I speak Marathi, the language spoken in Bombay. (for the others)

Yes, changing the name was a mistake. In Marathi, Bombay has been called Mumbai all along, and it has never sounded odd to me. But the moment, in other languages, English or Hindi, people began referring to the city as Mumbai - it sounded awful .

I don't have a deep love for the city because I never lived there. My main unhappiness is for the extinction of the word Bombay. I think it is a lovely word and it beautifully captures the crazy chaotic nature of the city.



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Lol!

I'm just trying to investigate the current state of affairs regarding political correctness etc, whilst also trying, in my small way, to keep the word Indian reserved for people from India!

We've been down the politically correct language thread before (somewhere in the vaults), and we managed to do that without too much bloodshed. Or did we?

Heigh-ho for the life of a sailor...


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Push-penny = Shove ha'penny?

Exactly my thought, shanks.

Marty compares push-penny to marbles; the intention appears to be to knock out opponents rather than score points as such.

If I'm thinking about the right animal, shove ha'penny on the other hand is a point scoring game, and takes place on a board. You try to knock the coins (or counters)
into specific lanes, each with a different points value. So you'd have, say, one 6-point lane, three 1-point lanes, two 2-point lanes etc.

It's fascinating how you end up with all these cross-overs, and start discerning a few fundamental game "templates".
Is there one ultimate underlying game, do you think?
The Glass Bead Game perhaps?!


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Good to see you here. Do you live in Goa? One of my favourite places in India - I don't think I will ever forget the joys of Goa sausage, the beach, and beer with ice in it!

Marathi is one of my favourite Indian languages - forcefully expressive, but capable of great delicacy and beauty at times. Swearing in Marathi was always so much more fun than swearing in Hindi!

One of my best friends here is a Maharashtrian, so we sometimes get our 'fix' by calling each other up and leaving random gaalis on each others' voice mail!

cheer

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The Glass Bead Game perhaps?!

Probably more like: "Here is how I would have killed the mammoth if D-Bhurg-ash there had not been such a coward" "Oh, yeah, well I could have killed it quicker than you." "No, me - because my aim is true".

A name contracted, after the first World Cup, to the more manageable 'Aim', later corrupted to 'game' - hence the word we all use and love these days.

cheer

the sunshine (fan of Just So Stories) warrior


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British irony

Shhhh!



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Definitely the way it really happened! All very impressive being Magister Ludi, but when did he last get a ball in the back of the net, eh?

D-Bhurg-ash wasn't really a coward, by the way. It had just occurred to her that there wasn't room in the pantry cave for yet another mammoth leg. She'd been on at A-Wod-lah for ages to finish the cave extension, but where was he yet again? Off comparing mammoth sizes with the other boys.



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