Google seems to be the expert in heart-warming commercials. Remember their first super bowl ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4unnMgiSQ
This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan
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#102So, the oldest sweet shop in Lahore just happened to be owned by Yusuf's grandson? How?
From the initial conversation between Baldev and Suman, it's clear that the sweet shop has been owned by Yusuf's family for several generations. Not sure how Suman knew it was the oldest though, unless Baldev told her that and the subtitles just didn't translate it.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
well that anti-Islam rant might work IF there was no Islamic nation that wasn't peaceful.
If I said that "much of the problems in the deep South in the United States are due to the prominence of Christianity in their culture" nobody would bat an eye, and nobody would read it as being anti-Christian. Denying that there are very real problems within the Islamic world, some of which are core to the religion, is an example of naivete, ignorance, or propaganda.
Totally agreed with you. Accepting the problem is the first step to fixing it. Simply denying will lead no where.
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#104The Ad also has short sequels as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lzSb0m1cs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXy9tGqlT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_Ke3iyfac
Thanks for these links. Just a bit unlikely that Ali would be able to read 'saunf' in Devanagari, isn't it?
The romanized form "Saumfa" is also shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA#t=0m26s .
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#105As a fellow Indian, I just want to point out that this video and any other efforts to develop people-to-people relationships between India and Pakistan have zero effect on the ongoing conflicts between the nations. Indians love Pakistani singers, cricketers, food, their language(Weird, I'm not a native Hindi speaker. But people tell me that Pakistani's speak better Hindi than most Indians). I've heard from Pak friend…
The longest running head of the Pakistan Army in recent decades, General Musharraf, who was also the military dictator of the country for a good portion of that, made a lot of overtures towards some semblance of improving relations. Just pointing out that the Pakistan Army has people in it who think more about than just conflict with India. Ironic as Musharraf instigated and led the last major Pakistan/India skirmish…
Yeah right, he was the mastermind behind the bloody Kargil war. He is a nutcase like all the other Pak Army/ISI agents who dream about the demise of India, no matter if they burn their homeland to ashes in the process.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for these links. Just a bit unlikely that Ali would be able to read 'saunf' in Devanagari, isn't it?
The romanized form "Saumfa" is also shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA#t=0m26s .
Ah, yes. It's just that I'd expect Ali to search for "fennel in urdu", which does show the same word in Nastaliq.
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#107The Ad also has short sequels as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lzSb0m1cs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXy9tGqlT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_Ke3iyfac
Thanks for these links. Just a bit unlikely that Ali would be able to read 'saunf' in Devanagari, isn't it?
yes but it said saunf in Roman below the huge Devanagari :)
he had to search in hindi because they were in India and maybe saunf is called something else there.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
(If you don't have bookmarks or don't keep a browsing history / don't know how to use URL autocompletion).
I use autocomplete for commonly-visited sites, but Google plus vague memories of basic search terms have almost completely supplanted my use of bookmarks these days.
Web History can get you around the vagueness part. It has more that once helped me recall something along the lines of "What was that search result 3 items down from last week.."
https://history.google.com/history/
I know quite a few people have this turned off due to some perceived "creepy" factor, but personally I cannot recommend it enough.
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Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.
I didn't want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize. I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites. In this way, Google is no…
> I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites.
In a somewhat similar way, I get a lot of good mileage out of hnsearch when investigating different technologies that I am new to.
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Hindi or Urdu? Haha... I always find the "language vs dialect" thing very interesting. The distinction when it comes to Hindi and Urdu is totally political. Two of my old buddies, one an Indian, the other a Pakistani, could completely understand each other, yet both insisted that they spoke different languages (Punjabi/Hindi and Urdu respectively) Another friend of mind, who left Pakistan as a 10 year old, always jus…
Urdu and Hindu are essentially the same thing -- except one is written in classic Indian devanagari Sanskrit-style script, and the other is written in Arabic script. And, of course, regional dialect -- but really, those distinctions are excusable in daily speaking. The related language families are just so related across the board -- Marathi, Punjabi, and Hindi -- that one can pick up the other with just a bit of pra…
Great observation--came here to say the same, but I have to disagree that jumping from Hindi to Punjabi (for example), even with a little bit of practice, is simple.
I'm a native Urdu (Hindi hehe) speaker and though I can understand the gist of a fast-paced Punjabi conversation, jumping in to participate is whole different matter. Even with a little bit of practice, I doubt I'd be productive.