Thanks for the defence. You often come across such losers on the internet who have too much extra time to browse web sites and talk shit.

Yeah, I know BNP Paribas has no setup in Pakistan. Not many major companies or businesses do, and you can’t blame them. It’s quite a dump.

Language: if there’s one nation or people who can respawn it, or truly appreciate it, it is the French. After all, no other empire has stuck to its own this day and age when English dominates the world. I’ll wait for your figurative example.

What do you do at BNP? My brother’s gonna get the laptop for now. He’ll either ship it to me or bring it with him next month, so I won’t be getting it yet.

Hope your weekend went well and that wifi dude returns.

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Hi ! it’s 9h22 here, and Wifi man hasn’t returned yet..
BNP Paribas has a lot of set up in lots of foreign countries, but I don’t think in Pakistan
Looks like Itis a bit restricted to Europe and North America, and.. India.
Concerning the language issue : I think you’re totally right. Language has lost it’s “art” value in most of places on the planet.. But I can assure you that some people here make it respawn with the ancient style… It’s quite amazing to here it ! So much ways to say even only one thing… and so much ways to understand it ! Powerfull language… But I think there’s something even more powerfull : The spirit. Human spirit is able to everything…
I’ll post you a good exemple to figurate (??) that idea soon…
But now I must return on work…
So I wish you a nice day ! !:-d
and enjoy with your new hp notebook :-p

Ah, the Mona Lisa. Do say hello to her if you head over to the Louvre. I’m just waiting till I get out of this wonderful place I’m at, and then I will be heading over other parts of Europe more often.

My 2nd and 3rd languages come from Pakistan and India. I’m from Pakistan (sadly, might I add). I’ve spent several years in the US, and I never really connected with Pakistan as ‘home.’ Now, however, I’m stuck here, among other things, due to some family issues. But since neither I or my wife, who, being very much a Brit in too many ways, are happy here, we plan on heading over to the UK soon enough.

Do stop by, I have some very interesting articles ready to be posted here. I just need to get myself out of the political mess here in Pakistan before I start criticizing the musings of this government and Muslims in general :).

Best of luck with wifi man. He could make for one hell of a comic character that an ISP could use in an advert campaign.

Now, is PNB restricted to france or do they have a set up in other countries too?

Sure, I understand what you’re getting at with the meaner and meaned stuff :). You see, I think, language is primarily only valid when used in the context of a certain speaker or writer and the intended audience. The language for art, for instance, is difficult for many of us to understand. After all, we can only speculate, and all of us for different reasons, why Mona Lisa has a mocking smile on her face. That’s Da Vinci’s way of communicating with someone, something. We’ll never know.

Don’t worry about the difficulty to express, it happens. I hope your wifi fellow returns soon enough for you to fix the QP issue.

As for me, English is my first language. Urdu my second. Punjabi my third.

PS : yes, i’m french and i speak german (not as well as english) too…
And you ? Is it possible for you to tell me what language you speak ?

Of course, the context and emotion in language are important, but I think if we dwell on the philosphical aspect of language, language suffers from the fallacy of being a tautology. Just like the law today in most countries (developed and underdeveloped), language has evolved into a creature of subjective understanding, and is slowly headed toward the opposite end of what it was originally meant for, i.e., communication.

And there fits the idea of the code you speak of. Just like mathematics, all languages also function if you accept a certain set of rules and accept certain definitions of certain words. However, all scholars seem to think they are more qualified than each other, and they want to customize the rules and apply preferred definitions to words. Such customization leads to the loss of common ground, and renders language absolutely useless. That’s what’s happening. With English being the world’s most spoken language, it’s tautological nature has taken a new growth, and that’s only doing the language damage.

What’s most sad about this whole ordeal is that the US is responsible for tainting about 50% of the English used in the world today; the other 50% we can attribute to the champions of Asia.

Btw, did you get QuickPlay installed? I’m speaking with a lawyer tonight to sue HP. They’ve had my laptop for over a month for repairs, and they haven’t returned it. Lying pricks! I’m going to make public the chats I’ve had with customer service too once I speak with the lawyer, but I this will make for a class action lawsuit.