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No where in the article do they even try to ask the people who own or paint these words on the vehicles? Speculation throughout and not a shred of input from an
by kelvin0 5y ago
No where in the article do they even try to ask the people who own or paint these words on the vehicles? Speculation throughout and not a shred of input from any of the people actually involved (Drivers, Lettering painters, police..).
Conclusion: none! We don't know and didn't ask either.
Really weird article.
- aniforprez 5y agoI've asked and they don't know for the most part either. It's become tradition at this point and it's not known by the drivers or the painters why. It's just cute
- gumby 5y agoMost of them don’t speak English either — this is merely something that has to go on your lorry.
- appleiigs 5y agoOK Please ask them in whatever language they speak.
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- webkike 5y agoLol, I don’t think the parent was suggesting that they can’t answer because the interviewer was only asking them in English, but rather they don’t know what the English phrase means precisely most of the time
- aatharuv 5y agoNot speaking English, doesn't imply they don't understand English words or phrases that have gotten into what languages they do speak.
- gumby 5y agoWhy I mean is you can’t ask them “why is OK in the middle of the phrase” because the answer is “that’s how it goes”. No different from asking an English speaker how some foreign loan word entered their usage or why, say, only the accusative. “Agenda” is singular in English and if you asked a random person on the street why they would shrug.
- hdesh 5y agoUnfortunately this is similar to how most of the western press covers India.
- DwnVoteHoneyPot 5y agoThe author should "do the needful" as my Indian colleagues would say.
- teawrecks 5y agoEspecially considering the title is "the origins of...". Should probably instead be "the unknown origins of".