I'm from India and I've read about the story of Christopher Columbus discovering "West Indies" when he was out to find a route to India... Where did America come in between??? lolzzz..
Umm.. and I just updated my 360 Blog to suit the festivities of India's Independence Day.. could you comment on it?
The link is... http://360.yahoo.com/profile-ZuHRFF8lc6PLe3V5Ftuhb6BGcqXyjwIH or http://360.yahoo.com/the.presidentusa
2006-07-31 10:55:03 · 7 answers · asked by Med Student 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
@ Chris... Ummm.. yeah... I think around 40% ppl here would be fluent in English... a little better than few Americans anyway... Oh and have you ever noticed that America never had a language of its own?? English.. comes from England... Hindi on the other hand comes from Hindustan aka India.. and almost every state here has a recognized language.. eg: Punjabi, Haryanvi, Kashmiri so on and so forth...
anyways.. what the hell is Poonjavi??? dimwitted moron...
2006-07-31 11:17:24 · update #1
Christopher Columbus landed in the US and thought that he had landed in India. But what a lot of people dont know is that he also landed in Barbados and called them Indians as well. For some reason, it just stuck when he called the Americans Indians. I will say that until I started dating an Indian from India that i never really noticed just how much we call the Native Americans, Indians.
Love the page and I am glad to know that you are a Harry Potter fan! Yay HP! Would love to chat with you to see what your predictions are....
I would like to note that Hindi has 244 dialects, deriving from different states as well as areas in India.
True, English does come from England, that is where we got ours from and so did every other English speaking country. We have managed to twist ours around and conform it so that it is literally another language. Anyone can learn British English ( it IS what most of the world speaks) But to learn American English is something completely different. My fiance asks me all the time what certain words are, because he has just never heard them. He asked me one time what shiznit meant. I swear I about fell over laughing. I had to explain that Snoop Dogg had created another little twist on our language and that it has become pretty popular. Kind of funny...
2006-07-31 11:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Christopher Columbus was totally lost. Actually, there is much evidence to support several European cultures discovering parts of the Americas, some of which a well educated traveller such as Columbus almost HAD to have known about, so I still don't understand how it was that he was so far off in his calculations.
2006-07-31 11:11:02 · answer #2 · answered by kjdean68 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
calling American Natives "Indian" is politically incorrect. It's more proper to call them Native Americans. People from India (such as yourself and many of my friends) are called Indian, not the people who were originally in America. Columbus was really backwards lol. I'll try and check out your page in a lil bit, but I don't have a 360 page so I may not be able to comment on it.
2006-07-31 11:00:14 · answer #3 · answered by Green-eyed Nikki 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus mistakenly believed he had landed in India. He knew next to nothing about India and thought the Islands he discovered were near the Asian mainland, so he called them Indians
2006-07-31 11:08:37 · answer #4 · answered by willy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good old Christopher Columbus thought he had landed in India - remember most folk still thought the world was flat - so the "new world" was a surprise
2006-07-31 10:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by charlie_2you 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus (and the rest of Europe) didnt know the American continent existed, so when they landed there, they thought they were in India
2006-07-31 10:59:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow! indians speak english? cool poonjavi!
2006-07-31 10:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋