Talk:North Indian culture
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The article covers vast region, and the images and content are in accordance with each other, so I don't think images are excessive. Kindly remove this comment.
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Grammar & Phraseology[edit]
I made a number of changes to the grammar and phraseology today... more seem to be needed though.
I cheerfully admit to knowing almost NOTHING about North Indian culture, and got here by accident while trying to inform myself!
I hope that my changes are not controversial, they are intended to add clarity.
I presumed that by 'prominently', the writer meant predominantly (ie mainly/usually/most commonly).
What is unclear to me still is whether 'overcloth' is an explanation/translation of 'dupatta' or whether overcloth is an alternative choice, whichever it is, the phrasing needs a little tidying and possibly simplifying.
This is a beautifully written and illustrated page, however the text is sometimes unclear because of non-standard phraseology.Pincrete (talk) 13:10, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
A lot of small changes, I hope they aid clarity. Changes include adding links to, for example dhabas & chapatis, adding a bracketed explanation here and there to words that non-Indians may not know. Tidying up the occasional slightly wrong use of a word, or the use of a complicated word, where a simpler one would be clearer, also some tidying of punctuation & grammar.
Where I was not fairly sure of the intended meaning, I left alone, but apart from the dupatta/overcloth ambiguity, there are other points where more/less description is called for. For example, it's a bit meaningless to mention the different style of Mughal cookery unless you include a few words to say how the styles differ.
Overall ..... please don't shoot me, I was only trying to help! Pincrete (talk) 14:25, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
I've tried to tidy some of the links, but more work needs to be done .... In instances where there is no linked page for Indian words, might I suggest a few simple words of explanation are needed otherwise the outsider encounters the word, but has no idea what it means. I happened to live in an Asian part of London, so have no problem with common food words (saag, pakora, chenna etc), but many English speakers (including many for whom English is not the first language, from countries from which there is little contact with Indian food or culture) would have no idea what these words mean!Pincrete (talk) 13:29, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
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