Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread ss
On Saturday 21 May 2011 3:28:55 am Salil Tripathi wrote: > Refugees from Pakistan have come to Europe since the Zia years, and many > haven't gone back. Some have acquired citizenship. Ahmediyyas are another > category who qualify for such a status, since they are a persecuted > minority. Likewise

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Sidin Sunny Vadukut wrote: > Anyone here who speaks both an Indian language and a Scandinavian one? I was > in Norway recently, and something about the way they speak seemed very very > similar to the Indic languages. I couldn't put my finger on it. Wikipedia > giv

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Salil Tripathi
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, ss wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2011 8:03:23 am divya manian wrote: > > Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees > > > > Pakistani refugees? From the murderous Indians I suppose? Otherwise I am > guessing life should have been pretty rosy for them in the land carved ou

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Friday 20 May 2011 10:16 PM, Sidin Sunny wrote: > I am afraid of saying anything now for fear of not top-posting or > leading to another discussion of my name. Still think we're an august gathering? :) --V

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Sidin Sunny
Sidin Sunny On Friday, 20 May 2011 at 17:44, ss wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2011 8:03:23 am divya manian wrote: > > Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees > > Pakistani refugees? From the murderous Indians I suppose? Otherwise I am > guessing life should have been pretty rosy for them in the l

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread ss
On Friday 20 May 2011 8:03:23 am divya manian wrote: > Norway has a lot of Pakistani refugees > Pakistani refugees? From the murderous Indians I suppose? Otherwise I am guessing life should have been pretty rosy for them in the land carved out for the Musllims of the Indian subcontinent. Why go

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Writing back, Thunderbird suggest I replace Indrajit with indrawn. Considering the atrocious words that it might be suggesting for Indian names, did a quick look for a dictionary that contains Indian names. Couldn't find any. Anybody know of a solution to stop the dithering spell check to recognize

Re: [silk] A cure for cancer?

2011-05-20 Thread Aditya Kapil
OK on the top-post. But how much more should I have trimmed? I only retained one sentence from the original mail. Adit. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Please do not top-post and please trim your replies (message > unchanged below). > > >

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:22 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > > How about Sivakumar and Dinah? > Bit late to the party, are we? :-P --V

Re: [silk] A cure for cancer?

2011-05-20 Thread Aditya Kapil
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA > method cannot be patented, This is not true. What they would file for is "a new indication" patent, which means that the drug is now being use for a new di

Re: [silk] A cure for cancer?

2011-05-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:46:20PM +0530, Aditya Kapil wrote: > I agree. Soap kills cancer cells in a petri dish... > Adit. Please do not top-post and please trim your replies (message unchanged below). > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > > At 2011-05-19 18:55:06 +

Re: [silk] A cure for cancer?

2011-05-20 Thread Aditya Kapil
I agree. Soap kills cancer cells in a petri dish... Adit. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2011-05-19 18:55:06 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote: > > DCA is just one substance (not the first) which > has shown promise at killing cancer cells in vitro, but which have n

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread anilkumar . nagaraj
Nice! Hat tip, Mr. Mangudi. -Anil Kumar (From BB) Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: Venkat Mangudi Sender: silklist-bounces+anilkumar.nagaraj=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:34:07 To: Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Nor

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Friday 20 May 2011 12:55 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > I wonder if there's a Mallu couple somewhere named Digital and Analog. The parents of Diana? ;)

Re: [silk] Norwegian/Swedish

2011-05-20 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2011-05-20 12:26:10 +0530, xxx...@yahoo.com wrote: > > This thread reminds me of the Tamil remake of Samson and Delilah > starring Sambasivan and D.Leela !! I wonder if there's a Mallu couple somewhere named Digital and Analog. Aside: I know only a smattering of Norwegian and Swedish, but I do