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by OJFord 942 days ago
To be clear I wasn't trying to hide anything, I've already said elsewhere that I took the tweet at face value, assumed it was correct and true that he was saying what was claimed.

Anything I missed is just because I'm learning Hindi, can't follow quickly, have limited vocabulary, and he's speaking Punjabi anyway which is slightly different as you know. I only offered an attempt at a partial translation at all as a sort of learning exercise for myself, and because fluent speakers hadn't chimed in at that point.

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No I am not saying anything as a negative. I am only talking about him taking the partial translation as complete and going along with it. If he was genuinely interested in knowing the Truth, he would have pursued it further himself and found a translation easily in the hundreds of articles already published about this exact story. But I doubt his intent.

Nothing to do with you though! Sorry if it came across that way!

EDIT: Also if I might add, whatever you translated was accurate. Great job! Your Hindi is already pretty good! And it is surprising you were able to pick that up from Punjabi which is definitely a lot different in comparison to Hindi!