Comments on: Have You Shampooed Your Buffalo In The Gym ? http://www.2point6billion.com/2007/05/11/heve-you-shampooed-your-buffalo-in-the-gym-143.html China & India, 40% of the world's population Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2-RC2 By: Sandeep http://www.2point6billion.com/2007/05/11/heve-you-shampooed-your-buffalo-in-the-gym-143.html#comment-439 Sandeep Tue, 15 May 2007 04:55:40 +0000 http://www.2point6billion.com/2007/05/11/heve-you-shampooed-your-buffalo-in-the-gym-143.html#comment-439 Very fun article from Mr. Chris! Very fun article from Mr. Chris!

]]> By: Shourik http://www.2point6billion.com/2007/05/11/heve-you-shampooed-your-buffalo-in-the-gym-143.html#comment-394 Shourik Mon, 14 May 2007 02:27:22 +0000 http://www.2point6billion.com/2007/05/11/heve-you-shampooed-your-buffalo-in-the-gym-143.html#comment-394 Thanks for your informative post. Having been born and brought up in a Bengali household in Australia speaking at least 2 languages all the time, I noticed significant similarities between English and Bengali words. One of my father's favourite past times was to point out English words with Indian roots, especially if they were not immediately apparent. Several local Aboriginal place names were not spared. When you visit the local suburb of Kalamunda, which is situated on a hill overlooking Perth, Western Australia, you might not think that there was an Indian link ("Kala" = black, "munda" = head). Despite my father's assurances, I am waiting for the anthropological proof! Simple ones like "path", "door" and "jungle", "mantra", "guru" and "pajama" were quite obvious, but there were many less so. The following pages have a better list than I could compile: http://www.ideamani.com/2005/06/indian-words-in-english.html http://www.zompist.com/indiawords.html The following page has the Hindi words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Hindi_origin Finally, the similarities between Bengali (derived as I understand it from Pali, the "working peoples' Sanskrit" in which many Buddhist texts are written) and Mandarin allowed me to surprise my Chinese friends when I referred to my dad as "Baba". I was happy to learn that they use the same word to refer to their fathers. Thanks for your informative post.

Having been born and brought up in a Bengali household in Australia speaking at least 2 languages all the time, I noticed significant similarities between English and Bengali words.

One of my father’s favourite past times was to point out English words with Indian roots, especially if they were not immediately apparent. Several local Aboriginal place names were not spared.

When you visit the local suburb of Kalamunda, which is situated on a hill overlooking Perth, Western Australia, you might not think that there was an Indian link (”Kala” = black, “munda” = head). Despite my father’s assurances, I am waiting for the anthropological proof!

Simple ones like “path”, “door” and “jungle”, “mantra”, “guru” and “pajama” were quite obvious, but there were many less so. The following pages have a better list than I could compile:

http://www.ideamani.com/2005/06/indian-words-in-english.html

http://www.zompist.com/indiawords.html

The following page has the Hindi words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Hindi_origin

Finally, the similarities between Bengali (derived as I understand it from Pali, the “working peoples’ Sanskrit” in which many Buddhist texts are written) and Mandarin allowed me to surprise my Chinese friends when I referred to my dad as “Baba”. I was happy to learn that they use the same word to refer to their fathers.

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