[asterisk-biz] Doubts
Nitzan Kon
nk3569 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 14 00:33:05 CST 2010
I don't know the first thing about their language, but I'm
willing to bet Indians have a word that means both doubt
and question, and they're just 1-for-1 translating that to
English.
Could be wrong, of course. :)
-- Nitzan
http://www.comparevoipproviderrates.com/
http://www.future-nine.com/
--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> From: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Doubts
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 1:22 AM
> I must confess, my linguistic
> curiosity is once again peaked.
>
> Is there a particular reason why so many people use the
> word "doubt"
> where a native English speaker would say "question,"
> "problem,"
> "connundrum," "dilemma," "issue," but specifically _not_
> "concern" or
> "uncertainty?"
>
> Example:
>
> "Please help me with my doubt about this DAHDI error."
>
> "I am having a doubt with sip.conf..."
>
> I am assuming there is a fairly obvious explanation
> grounded in
> translation of analogous words and/or the relation of
> intercultural
> concepts, but I do not know what it is.
>
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