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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by fuzztester on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:23PM (#42544523)
For example, I've across some of them who think that the (sole) language of India is "Indian"! :)

There is no language called Indian, dudes. India is both very diverse (regionally and subregionally and fractally), and a melting pot, like the US, and has been that way, for centuries before the US became like that. In both cases, it is due to both being huge, geographically, and due to the invasions in both countries.

India has many languages and many more dialects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

JFC.

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by unsui on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:10AM (#42556802)
ha, you think they give a damn about that?

If you speak spanish, you're a "mexican", regardless of whether you're from el salvador, ecuador, cuba, whatever.

nevermind what they think about "indians"..... JFC indeed

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by fuzztester on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @03:37PM (#42561652)
ha, good point, hermano :) [1]

I bet they don't know, either, that cuba is pronounced koobaa, or that [1] hermano (brother) is pronounced ermaano, or that jesus is pronounced haysoos, or even that george (jorje) is pronounced horhay :)

I learned that about koobaa from a kooban friend in high school, and about horhay from my aunt who went to the US, did her PhD there, and became a univ prof and a US citizen, and about ermaano from google.

https://www.google.com/search?q=brother+in+Spanish

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by fuzztester on Monday January 06, 2025 @08:46PM (#42618304)
>huge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...

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