The Stephen Colbert show is just terrible now

[vixnix]

Isn't English an official language in India?

Nearly every Indian person I've ever met has spoken perfect English.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Isn't English an official language in India?

Nearly every Indian person I've ever met has spoken perfect English.

according to BBC, about 10% of Indians speak English

[vixnix]

I had no idea. I wonder if I have had so much contact with English Indian nationals because they move from one ex-colony to another. Better the devil you know, etc.

When I consider the places I have met Indian people - middle class schools, tennis clubs, medical practices etc., I can see that perhaps the sample I have met is not entirely representative

[redbreegull]

most Indian people I have met in the US have also spoken English well. I was not prepared for going to India. Our taxi driver from the airport couldn't find our hotel and the ride was really long like almost an hour and it was the middle of the night and he spoke no English, it was pretty overwhelming

[redbreegull]

also according to bbc, those 10% of Indians make India the country with the second greatest number of English speakers, behind the United States. And the number is projected to be 40% in another decade

[MarquisInSpades]

Yep. This country has a lot of people, hahah.

[MarquisInSpades]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Isn't English an official language in India?

Nearly every Indian person I've ever met has spoken perfect English.

that's probably because you met them outside of India. It'd be crucial for a person who travels internationally to know English.

[MarquisInSpades]

Originally Posted by vixnix

I had no idea. I wonder if I have had so much contact with English Indian nationals because they move from one ex-colony to another. Better the devil you know, etc.

When I consider the places I have met Indian people - middle class schools, tennis clubs, medical practices etc., I can see that perhaps the sample I have met is not entirely representative

yep.

[MarquisInSpades]

Well, mostly *shrugs*

[ilikeplanets]

A number like over 1 billion really blows my mind

[MarquisInSpades]

We've 1 billion people more than the US does. And we're a smaller country.

[MarquisInSpades]

[MarquisInSpades]

one billion nine hundred thousand, more precisely.

[MarquisInSpades]

[smashingjj]

Originally Posted by MarquisInSpades

We've 1 billion people more than the US does. And we're a smaller country.

might wanna slow down on that a little

[MarquisInSpades]

??

[MarquisInSpades]

Originally Posted by MarquisInSpades

We've 1 billion people more than the US does. And we're a smaller country.

I mean, it's not like it's a good thing...

[fuzzyroes]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

fuzzy would be disappointed to find that even (most) rural Texans think Alex Jones is a fucking quack as they have enough sense to know when someone's selling them a bridge

they're also deeply religious so how does that fit in with his view that religion is for suckers

True, I dunno if I'd like to live there or anything, but I think it would be cool to visit. It seems like Texas embodies a lot of the fundamental American culture.

[fuzzyroes]

RBG, this community is small enough, you don't have to chase away our new young friend just because his ideology doesn't perfectly align with yours.

[smashingjj]

the fundamental American culture was destroyed centuries ago, if I recall correctly.

[fuzzyroes]

Well I mean the whole western vibe, and the larger than life kind of aspect within the culture. Texas embodies that. It would be a blast to visit.

[smashingjj]

do you understand how it is disgusting to some?

[ilikeplanets]

except for Austin, Austin's cool

[Cool As Ice Cream]

austin algins with the fundamental texas culture.

[fuzzyroes]

Tucker Carlsons the best news personality on cable TV.

It's priceless watching him destroy his dumbass guests.

[redbreegull]

fuzzy you're fucking stupid as shit

[qwerty sp]

How r you fuzzrod?

NFL betting treating you right?

[ilikeplanets]

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

austin algins with the fundamental texas culture.

that's a definite no

[FoolofaTook]

se of those techniques.

The Wall by Anita Endrezze (Yaqui)

Build a wall of saguaros, butterflies, and bones of those who perished in the desert. A wall of worn shoes, dry water bottles, poinsettias. Construct it of gilded or crazy house mirrors so some can see their true faces. Build a wall of revolving doors or revolutionary abuelas. Make it as high as the sun, strong as tequila. Boulders of sugar skulls. Adobe or ghosts. A Lego wall or bubble wrap. A wall of hands holding hands, hair braided from one woman to another, one country to another. A wall made of Berlin. A wall made for tunneling. A beautiful wall of taco trucks. A wall of silent stars and migratory songs. This wall of solar panels and holy light, panels of compressed cheetos, topped not by barbed wire but sprouting avocado seeds, those Aztec testicles. A wall to keep Us in and Them out. It will have faces and heartbeats. Dreams will be terrorists. The Wall will divide towns, homes, mountains, the sky that airplanes fly through with their potential illegals. Our wallets will be on life support to pay for it. Let it be built of guacamole so we can have a bigly block party. Mortar it with xocoatl, chocolate. Build it from coyote howls and wild horses drumming across the plains of Texas, from the memories of hummingbird warriors and healers. Stack it thick as blood, which has mingled for centuries, la vida. Dig the foundation deep. Create a 2,000 mile altar, lit with votive candles for those who have crossed over defending freedom under spangled stars and drape it with rebozos, and sweet grass. Make it from two way windows: the wind will interrogate us, the rivers will judge us, for they know how to separate and divide to become whole. Pink Floyd will inaugurate it. Ex-Presidente Fox will give it the middle finger salute. Wiley Coyote will run headlong into it, and survive long after history forgets us. Bees will find sand-scoured holes and fill it with honey. Heroin will cover it in blood. But it will be a beautiful wall. A huge wall. Remember to put a rose-strewn doorway in Nogales where my grandmother crossed over, pistols on her hips. Make it a gallery of graffiti art, a refuge for tumbleweeds, a border of stories we already know by heart.

Copyright © 2017 by Anita Endrezze

[qwerty sp]

Your such a literate bastard Took

Heaven bless you