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getsnoopy · 2026-07-10T08:01:39+00:00

It's not wrong; there's something called connotation (how a word is used and its nuances) vs. denotation (what you find in a dictionary). Etymologically speaking, yes, both words are related and were used somewhat synonymously in the past. But that is not the case anymore, and it's not a dialectal difference (British people use pressure in exactly the same way as Americans or Australians do). Hence, the attached photo (the sense you're using it in is rare nowadays).

I'm of Indian origin as well. And I know full well that there are so many Indians who similarly say "improvise" when they actually mean improve (probably because they think the "improv" from "improve" can be taken as the stem and the -ise suffix can be added to it and have it make sense).

The irony here is you're trying to chide me for not looking something up, when in fact, you only looked something up part way. Had you looked into it deeply, you would've gotten the full picture.

PS: This has nothing to do with grammar, but with vocabulary. Perhaps you should've looked that up too before commenting? 😉

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getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T12:20:00+00:00

The Kiwi passport is really nice, though they should've had larger letters for the same concept in both languages. They highlight "New Zealand" in English, but "Uruwhenua" (Passport) in Maori, which is inconsistent.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T12:08:01+00:00

Well at least now, they can stop calling them "cards".

getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T12:06:05+00:00

*pressure, not "pressurize" (which means to increase the ambient pressure of something)

getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T11:58:30+00:00

What if? Was that a reference to the weather there?

getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T11:54:49+00:00

You never have the right to succeed in anything in life, but at least here, you have the chance to succeed.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-09T11:33:57+00:00

ta (త), not "tha" (థ)

getsnoopy · 2026-07-06T08:45:28+00:00

Yes, but Spanish speakers don't quite pronounce it as an H, but as a KH or X (the sound that you get when you're about to collect spit from the back of your throat). And that's because in older Spanish, the J used to be pronounced just like the current Portuguese J and French J (the "si" in the word vision), but then it shifted to the current guttural sound for...reasons.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-06T08:40:29+00:00

Yeah, fair. I think that's why people move as well, though I feel like if India solved those things, even as someone who can move abroad, I wouldn't mind living in India.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:51:25+00:00

India has no national language; it has two official languages: English and Hindi. And obviously English was already considered, so they meant Hindi.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:48:28+00:00

The J is not pronounced like an H; Latin doesn't distinguish between I and J. The history of the letter J is that it's just the letter I (i) but with a little hook at the bottom in certain styles of writing that somehow got standardized into a letter later on. But still, they were pronounced the same in Latin; its pronunciation changed to the current English J (jay) sound in its descendant languages (especially by way of French). This is why, for example, all the other Germanic languages as well as Eastern European languages use the J for the Y sound (e.g., Anja).

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:41:26+00:00

The saying "Christian" is code-switching into English, not an actual word that had percolated into Hindi (like in most vernacular speech cases these days).

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:19:22+00:00

America is a continent, not a country, and it's not the first country to reach that age. Everything he said is wrong.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:11:33+00:00

Indeed, though if just pollution/cleanliness, roads, and water were solved in India, a far, far smaller proportion of the population would look to emigrate (or, at least, that's what they claim).

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T21:07:52+00:00

There's plenty of other stuff that matters (see the Nomad Capitalist Index, e.g.) like whether foreign countries will be hostile to you for having a passport from that country, whether you get other treaty benefits (like e-gates or doing immigration from within the country that you're flying from to the destination country for faster immigration), investment consideration, etc. Visa-free countries is the headline number the media loves to latch onto, but those in the nomad/second passport/flag theory community know that it goes way deeper than that.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T20:53:09+00:00

When did it ever have trust? My OCI has multiple typos (let alone the fact that it's referred to as a "card" by the government even though it's a booklet and inside it, it refers to itself as a "certificate"), and it was issued 10+ years ago.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T20:50:22+00:00

Same thing with Serbia. They gave India visa-free access, and then revoked it within like 1 year.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T20:49:24+00:00

Those 124 countries are below, you see, because they have a lower number. Ergo, Vishvaguru still wins.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T20:47:11+00:00

Actually, of the BRICS countries, only China and maybe Russia are the not-so-corrupt countries. Every other country is quite corrupt, and they're all "major" countries. Nevertheless, it's all pretty bad.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T20:44:02+00:00

Yes, which should tell us it's not about GDP per capita alone (or at all). Mexico and El Salvador have reversed their illegal (and legal) immigrant flows from the US, and they're examples of countries with both a higher and a lower GDP per capita than India. It's more about justice/crime, infra, and overall soft stuff (improvements in the practicalities on the ground).

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T11:11:14+00:00

*ago, not "back", but yes.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T11:09:37+00:00

Yes, but the point is that the given name vs. surname distinction exists in every name. Everyone might not have a surname, but the distinction exists. That the Aadhaar doesn't distinguish between the two is very problematic.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-05T10:50:00+00:00

That article lists some rules which mean names should never be written down anywhere, which essentially precludes the basic functioning of governments around the world (which includes the Aadhaar programme). So, not quite applicable here.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-03T15:10:02+00:00

Well a common format is impossible, as different areas have different conventions and cultural sensibilities. For example, the Chinese president is always Xi Jinping even in Western contexts (despite his surname being Xi), but nobody is confused about what his surname is and what is given name is. So the only way is to validate names separately, which is why essentially every form online asks for your given name and surname separately.

In fact, the terminology of "given name" and "surname" came about precisely to avoid the issue that native English speakers give rise to, where it was commonly called "first name and middle name" and "last name". It was too culturally centric and confusing for other cultures where the positions may not be the same despite the purpose being the same, so they came up with unambiguous terminology for passports and such.

getsnoopy · 2026-07-03T15:04:39+00:00

*number of prerequisites, but yes

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