Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!easy.in-chemnitz.de!feeder.erje.net!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4E651E4E.5000405@bitblocks.com> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:09:02 -0700 From: Bakul Shah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! References: <4e64d26f$1@news.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <4e64d26f$1@news.broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 Sep 2011 19:09:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69c3fce7.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=8k<;5V;ZoIh8@Nl1JGEH1lm4K\QM1CV^`1OYf0H`?;Xa4`0DkXMlOkkU[Zjk:d[l;f:7?bn\4f]co X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.arch:3474 On 9/5/11 4:45 AM, Morten Reistad wrote: > > There are more English-speakers in India than in any other country in the > world. India is one of the nations where English is used locally to > communicate between a plethora of langauges. There are perhaps more English *users* in India than any other country but not *speakers*. Many can read English but can't converse in it beyond a few basic words. English is used more and more by the "educated" classes but I wouldn't say English is used by the common man all that much. In the northern half of India you can get by with Hindi much better than with English. Northerners & Southerners may need English to communicate -- but when I tried it on the streets of Mysore there was mutual incomprehension! The younger generation seems to effortlessly switch between hindi & english even midsentence so perhaps "hinglish" is the new prakrit!