On Tuesday 18 November 2008 02:07:18 am satish wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 11:06 -0500, varadarajan narayanan wrote: > > We are a multilingual society. And this is ILUGC ( Chennai) > > Tamil is perfectly acceptable. > > but it does not really serve the purpose when what you meant is not > understood by the other party !
I face this problem all the time in North India - they automatically assume I know Hindi and keep talking Hindi. I used to protest, but now I have given up - I assume that if they are not interested in whether I understand them, what they are saying is not worth listening to. I can read Tamil, but not as fast as English, and with email, anything I cannot scan at a glance, I delete. No time for anything else. So I simply assume that this stuff is not important enough to read. Common courtesy dictates that one should make oneself understood - sure, post in Tamil or Hindi or Swahili for that matter, but have the courtesy to attach a summary in English. Otherwise it is just bad manners - and highly impolite. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc