India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by highwaylights on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:13PM (#33513862)

For anyone that doesn’t know (although admittedly not particularly relevant, but topical) Narayana Murthy is the FIL of the now-current UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by vanattab on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:45PM (#33514170)

What is fil?

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by yesseri on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:53PM (#33514240)

Father-in-law

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by vram22 on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:51PM (#33514228)

Father-in-law. Like BIL for Brother-in-law.

Apropos, I've always wondered where the terms gf and bf, for girlfriend and boyfriend, came from, i.e. the West, or India. Wonder, because many such short forms come from or are unique to Indian English.

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by titanomachy on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:18PM (#33514858)

gf and bf widely used in the west

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by dlivingston on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:29PM (#33514931)

I mean, acronyms are pretty common to the modern English language in general. Is what you're talking about a bit different? Can you dive in a bit?

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by highwaylights on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:26AM (#33517444)

I don't know this, but I think the parent maybe meant the term boyfriend/girlfriend rather than the acronym?

It is strange to parse given that it means "person that I'm non-platonically involved with" (i.e. not simply friends).

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by raverbashing on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:59AM (#33516931)

It's the obvious acronym for those words

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by petesergeant on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:33AM (#33516184)

Imagine marrying into a self-made billionaire Asian family, and feeling overshadowed by your father-in-law. Literally the only way you're getting out from under that is becoming leader of a major country.

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Re:India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN by Thev00d00 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:14AM (#33517376)

Having control of nuclear weapons is a son-in-law flex for sure.

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