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Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by pritambaral »

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #14
vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

And when you talk (in English or Kannada) about Rome, do you write (and say) 'Roma'? When you talk about Moscow, do you say 'Moskvá'? (Even closer to home, do you say 'naaii dillii'?)

While I agree with you in general, you would have a better case with a different city than New Delhi, because most Indians simply never use the full English name in informal parlance — it's always been 'Dilli' (in Hindi) and/or 'Deli' (in inf. Indian English). In fact, the term (and equivalents of) 'Old Delhi' see more common use than 'New Delhi', largely because the latter is the one most commonly referred to as just 'Delhi'.

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Post by keerthiko »

rorykoehler wrote: post #6
vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

Bangalore is the English name. My city is called Dublin in English and Baile Átha Cliath in our native language of Irish. As an Irishman I understand better than most the resentment towards the English but really this is not a battle worth fighting. Both names are correct in their respective languages.

Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language. Bangalore is the British Empire's English name.

It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind. This battle is completely worth fighting. If Ireland officially lists Dublin as Baile Atha Cliath for addresses, the airport, and for international English references, I will use that. This is not about two different languages, but of erasure.

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by srean »

vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

Its been 70 years since the British left, I wonder why the sudden resurgence to go back to pre-British names. Bengaluru was the name for the place prior to the British, but I would argue its the British that made 'Bangalore: the garden city' out of it, that touch still remains although diminishing everyday.

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by simula67 »

vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

I think this is particularly uncharitable. YC is probably planning to invest in companies in India, we should be more charitable and not be unnecessarily antagonistic.

Also, I think this is unrealistic. Do you expect others to properly use the names of all cities ? For example : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode. The 'zh' sound is not present outside of a few South Indian languages. It is OK if others call it Calicut IMO

EDIT: It seems the OP has edited the comment to make it more polite. Thanks OP.

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by keerthiko »

achow wrote: post #19
vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

'Bangalore' vs 'Bengaluru' by people of Karnataka - the state of which Bangalore is capital of. Bangalore : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bangalo... Bengaluru : https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bengalu...

please look at it for "all time" (that google has data for)

Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...

Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...

This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by jmspring »

Good to see YC expand. I’m curious, though, if innovation ramps up in the startup space in both China and India, will there be a decrease in demand for immigration to the states?

My own experience across the visa spectrum is some want to move here permanently, some want to make their stake here and return back to their home country, some want to come here and build new businesses.

I don’t mean it as A discussion about immigration but more about one of innovation.

We keep hearing, despite obvious growth in other regions, SV is still ground zero for new companies.

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by Uhhrrr »

vesh wrote: post #2

Bengalūru, it has been 14 year since the name changed officially would appreciate if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city.

It would help your case if you were to write, "It has been 14 years since the name changed officially, and I would appreciate it if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city."

Re: YC Interviews in India

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Post by lalith_c »

ai_ia wrote: post #18
coder006 wrote: post #17

It's amazing to see how people are fighting over city names on a YC thread. Just amazing! When we have problems like climate change and global warming to solve, please by all means let's first decide the name of the city!

To remind you, people also fight over if Thanos was right on the internet. Not everyone is supposed to talk about the big problems like climate change all the time. That's kind of boring. My two cents though.

ycombinator shouldn’t be the medium to discuss non technology period.
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