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May I ask -- do you have Aspergers? You seem entirely disconnected to your audience, the vast majority of whom can not understand words like dawah wallah and, now, zabiha. Yet you continue to use such words. If you have Aspergers, forgive me, as it would be an understandable justification for your assumption that the majority of your audience understands your thinking as well as the foreign words you are choosing to use. If you do not have Aspergers, then think about this: There may be thousands of people viewing your posts and usage of foreign words. Out of the thousands, you draw attention to the two posters who said they correctly understand the terms you used. One was you. The other was a poster of British background who claimed dawah wallah is a word of British origin or background also. It's not at all. [b]It is a word distinctly used by only Indians or Pakistani people. [/b][/quote]
Different poster here.  You are wrong.  It's a very popular word known to many, many people, not at all ONLY Indian and Pakistani, as you claim.  It's known to anyone who spent any time in the subcontinent, anyone who traveled to countries with a substantial Indian population (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Guyana, Trinidad), anyone who ever had a Pakistani maid or an Indian driver (per my Emirati DH), anyone who reads South Asian fiction (see http://www.amazon.com/Story-Wallah-Short-Fiction-South-Writers/dp/0618576800), the list goes on and on.   You don't seem aware of the way information travels in the interconnected global environment.  Forgive me, but you sound provincial.

If anything, fewer people know what dawwah means than what wallah means..[/quote]

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