Bore Da! and other things you can learn in India...

One of the cool things I found out last time I was here (Thanks to Revathi) is that there is a GREAT bookstore in Bangalore called Blossom where you can find just about anything (see my earlier post about it from 2007). Last night, I stopped in after dinner to browse--and I only stopped on the first floor. This bookstore is one of those hilarious places where there are books stacked and shelved floor to ceiling, and yet the staff can find you just about anything. I took these two shots as a quick example.


But the funniest part was that in walking through, my eyes landed on this book, which I just HAD to buy. My friend Eleri has promised to teach me some Welsh and lo and behold, I find a "Teach Yourself Welsh" book in Bangalore. Globalization just continues to make the world a little stranger all the time. =)

I think the cover picture is very appropriate, since Welsh really resembles none of the languages of the countries around it (or at least, as near as I can tell). After studying French and German, I can decode some meaning out of a lot of other European languages, but not Welsh. It could be Hindi for as much as I can gather from it and Hindi is written in a different alphabet. Bore Da is good morning. And for those of you who think that Da must be like "day", it's not--it means "good".