Thank you, I needed to understand the grammar.
People of Bharat are called Bharatiya.
Is that plural?
eg) a person from China is called a Chinaman (singular)
and a group of people from China are called Chinamen (plural)
and what is the adjective?
eg ) we speak of a Chinese person ( Chinese is an adjective)
Sorry to be so pedantic about grammar… it is the only way to get an understanding of your terminology. The word ‘Indian’ can be a singular noun or an adjective.
Oh come on! Infact a big thanks to you and @kovacslt for atleast trying to understand it. Many people just ignore.
So, you can use Bharatiya ( भारतीय ) for referring one or many people and also as an adjective.
Ex. He is a Bharatiya( singular) or they are Bharatiya ( plural)
Ex. Its a Bharatiya project ( adjective).
I’m from the Netherlands. However, I’m also from Holland (South Holland, to be specific). Not every Dutch person can claim they’re from Holland (North and South Holland are two of several provinces.
Netherlands
So is that the country of which holland is part of ?
Why not dutch as in the people who come from it ?
Its confusing for an outsider… I have a big collection of clients from your country and they are all extreamly tall, compaired to me as I am only 5 Ft 2. Yes linux mint in dutch installations, makes me think when problem solving yes and no i can cope with but much more they translate for me to follow.
For years, I thought Holland was it’s own country. Of course later i learn Holland was a state in the the Netherlands. From your remarks, I assume that England and Great Britain means two different things. One is the country, the other a group of countries.
Ok quick and easy answer
Yes they are different.
England is a country, you add wales and it becomes great Britain
You add Scotland and it becomes the united kingdom
You add northern Ireland and it becomes the united kingdom and northern Ireland
But you cannot add isle of man, jersey Guernsey ans they are crown dependencies
Nor can you add Gibraltar because that is an overseas territory
Nor can you add commonwealth nations nigeria, Kenya… there are 47 of them
Common factor is the king, but not the government as each has its own government with the oldest being the isle of man and Tynwald.
You can use english pounds in most but not the other way round so a iom pound looks different, legal tender on the islan but not in england, Scottish pound leagel in both Scotland and england.
I am from yorkshire, when asked about my nationality I always reply yorkshire… confusing the hell out of everyone as they think i am a dog (yorkshire terrier)
Easy and we have not done languages in them all.
Thank you, I understand.
It is like Australian… a noun and an adjective .
eg He is an Australian, they are Australians, its an Australian project.
We abbreviate it to Aussie.
Australia’s name comes from the Spanish (Portuguese born) explorer
Fernandez de Queiroz who reached the pacific island of Vanuatu and named it
‘Australia del Espiritu Santo’, mistakenly thinking he had discovered the mainland.
It translates to ‘Southern land of the Holy Spirit’.
He could have done with a bit of GPS… only 4000 miles off course.
He in turn got the name from ’ Terra Australis incognita’… which means unknown southern land… which is how it was marked on early maps.
The name is very appropriate today. … Australia is home for millions of refugees from all over the world, many of whom are Christian. When we go to Church there are Indian (sorry Bharatiya) people from the Syro-Malabar region, Chinese people, North Africans, Italians, Japanese, Vietnamese people, Irish people and many others I cant trace. They are the majority… the English immigrants and indigenous people are outnumbered today.
Our priest is a Syro-Malabar Catholic priest. Australia has only one Cardinal… he is Ukranian born.
Australia today is an enormous multicultural experiment.
Australia had one Prime Minister who was from Netherlands.
The name ’ New Holland’ was given to Australia by Dutch explorers, but the English did not adopt it. They chose instead ’ Terra Australis’ .
Great, nice topic. Interesting to hear from others around the world, sharing interests for Open Source.
I was born in Germany but have been living for over 20 years in New Zealand (NZ) by now. We are running a local IT company that uses (favors) Open Source wherever possible/useful.
Here you get an idea how nice NZ is:
Which one was that? I can’t find any Dutch born PM… Closest was Chris Watson (nee Tanck) who was born to a German father in Chile (his mother moved to NZ and he adopted his stepfather’s surname)…
“novaehollandia” is commonly used in scientific names for organisms - or sometimes “hollandicus” like the cockatiel “nymphicus hollandicus”
I had a whole branch of my paternal grandmother’s family tree in The Netherlands - they were German, but some stayed in Germany, some moved to The Netherlands, some moved to Switzerland (and one moved to Australia in 1870 - as a 20 year old engineer - in Melbourne - but by the late 1870’s he was managing a winery in the Hunter Valley [i.e. near Newcastle NSW] for a German chap who became his father-in-law)… So I guess I’ve probably got distant cousins in the Netherlands…
This is entertaining.
Tony Abbot.
He may have been born here, but he often referred to his Netherlandic ancestry.
I’d always thought he was just a 10 Pound Pom…
He was born a Pommie…
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Mr Abbott himself was born in London on November 4, 1957 to an Australian mother, Faye Abbott and an English father, Richard Henry (Dick) Abbott. Mr Abbott’s parents are both only children. His grandparents emigrated from England and the Netherlands to Australia between 1912 and 1939. "
You are correct.
The Netherlands link was 2 generations back…his grandparents.
Strange… he often referred to it.
Sadly there are many errors in his description… which are just minor details
Plus he speaks too fast to follow
I know what this is but bet many on our site may not, who is going to reveal the secrets…
2 of my aunts and family moved with this, both returned. First volunteer but second was told to go by the government. Part of the family I no longer have contact with …
Interesting, but the presentation is aweful. I cant hear the words because the background music interferes, and he speaks too fast.
If that is the best a video can do, I will stick to reading text.
This is a good place to start
I had to pause every 2 seconds to catch up with the subtitles.
This is definitely not for non-english speakers.
(According to @nevj , it’s a challenge even for native english speakers…)
So what’s a Pommie? Sounds a bit like an insult.
I am native english speaker but his first 2 mins were factually wrong so it put me off… then he made errors over the island off the coast of wales, Scotland… at that point i stopped it
Had not got his fact checking correct.
