I know this is awful of me, but I struggle mightily and without success to overcome my distaste for the name of the Indian currency. It sounds to my English-wired brain like a sexually-transmitted disease, cf. Herpes.
"Timings"
Have you encountered "Prepone" and "Crore" yet?
Car horns are used as turn signals
…and as brake lights, and as windshield wipers, and as door handles, and as speedometers, and as gearshifts, and as just about every other part of the car. And high ("main") beams are used as low ("dipped") beams.
Traffic moves on the left side of the road.
That's the nominal theory, anyway.
pedestrians tend to also pass each other on the left, which conflicts severely with my deeply in-grained habit of automatically passing on the right.
Interesting…I grew up in a right-traffic country and when walking, as when driving, my habit is to pass on the left. On moving walkways in airports and such in North America, the signs always read "WALK LEFT - STAND RIGHT". I've found pedestrians in left-traffic countries (my data points are the UK and India) tend to pass on the right. Where does your pass-on-the-right habit come from, do you reckon?
I share your opinion of what happened to the noise monitor.
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Date: 2012-02-07 10:08 pm (UTC)I know this is awful of me, but I struggle mightily and without success to overcome my distaste for the name of the Indian currency. It sounds to my English-wired brain like a sexually-transmitted disease, cf. Herpes.
"Timings"
Have you encountered "Prepone" and "Crore" yet?
Car horns are used as turn signals
…and as brake lights, and as windshield wipers, and as door handles, and as speedometers, and as gearshifts, and as just about every other part of the car. And high ("main") beams are used as low ("dipped") beams.
Traffic moves on the left side of the road.
That's the nominal theory, anyway.
pedestrians tend to also pass each other on the left, which conflicts severely with my deeply in-grained habit of automatically passing on the right.
Interesting…I grew up in a right-traffic country and when walking, as when driving, my habit is to pass on the left. On moving walkways in airports and such in North America, the signs always read "WALK LEFT - STAND RIGHT". I've found pedestrians in left-traffic countries (my data points are the UK and India) tend to pass on the right. Where does your pass-on-the-right habit come from, do you reckon?
I share your opinion of what happened to the noise monitor.