Al Hoang

Kudos to Chris Baird

Language Log has
links to some articles about the intersection of Hindi and English.
Quite interesting. I am reading up on it now. I’ve known about
Spanglish, Franglais, and Japan-glish due to my exposure to these
languages but Hinglish is a new one for me.

Go read it yourself

Wow this post
is close to mind boggling for me….

Check it out for yourself

Thanks to
Epimetheus for the link

Language Log links
to this really amusing imaginary scenario where George Benard Psschaughal
tries to collect his Nobel Prize. (link here).

Absolutely hilarious.

Here’s a quick excerpt:

Go read it yourself.

Seems like Spidey gets a face-lift and another story thread respun as
he gets localized for an Indian audience. Rather than Peter Parker
we will have Pavitr Prabhakar (Anyone know the meaning of that name?)
swinging around the streets of India fighting justice and hopefully
upholding, “With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”… Indian Style

I only hope I can get a copy of this localized version. This would
be neat way to see Indian culture through a genre I’ve always liked
reading!

Thanks to BoingBoing for the
link

Very cool. Something only a UNIX geek/hater could love…

Thanks Ranger Rick!

In one of the more odder news bits I’ve read… The New York Times
is reporting that due to a short supply of clergy in the United States the Roman
Catholic Church is outsourcing clergy to Indian priests.

American, as well as Canadian and European churches, are sending Mass intentions, or requests for services like those to remember deceased relatives and thanksgiving prayers, to clergy in India.

Hmmm, you know, becoming a priest might not be such a bad job from a job
stability point of view. Sure you got to be celibate and all that but for
many techie geeks that isn’t a big deal is it? And with the IT market
still not looking that great in the U.S. if you want job stability,
being a clergy member is a rather stable job. The only downsides are if
you screw up enough to get fired, you probably did enough bad stuff to
have your soul sent to hell.

Oh yeah, you also have to have some religion as well.

Read it yourself

This is just too funny. Some Korea guy sets up a blog
and his mom ends up sniffing it out via the all-powerful Google
and ends up giving him a major chiding for being profane to the Internet.

D’oh!

Well, it’s happened. I knew it was going to happen eventually, but not this fast. I mean, how the heck could I have anticipated my Mom Googling me and finding my blog? I’m beginning to regret having taught her all those lessons on surfing the Internet.