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Julia is not a "guy", Peter, because she is a girl ! ( guy -- pronounced as in Hindi गाय ) -- have fun learning :):)
In German, "cow" with reference to a woman is an insult ("dumme/blöde Kuh") but I strongly suppose this is not so in Hindi.
In American English speaking circles, calling a woman a cow is an insult to both her appearance and intelligence. While this may be a fairly clever pun, I would be pretty hesitant to use it for fear of insulting someone.
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I meant it in the context of Hindi language/ in India. I should have specified it more clearly.
Please, no offense was meant or taken. It was just meant as a good thing to know, just the same as it is good to know that likening someone to a cow isn’t an insult in India.
In spanish, calling "vaca" (cow) to a woman is an insult only in the physical sense, that is, it is like calling her "fat, obese, extremely overweight" in the bad way.
Wenn ich Pramod richtig verstanden habe, war überhaupt nicht von einer Kuh die Rede. Es werden ja viele englische Wörter "eingeindischt" und dann wird eben aus dem englischen Wort 'guy' in der Devanagri Schrift eine Kuh :)) Da Kühe vielen Indern heilig sind, empfinden sie das wahrscheinlich auch nicht als Herabsetzung.
@eik55: Translation:
"If I've understood Pramod correctly, the conversation is definitely not about a cow. Many English words have been Indianized* and thus even the English word "guy" is written in Devanagari the same as "cow". Because cows are sacred in India, they probably don't see it as an insult."
- English has no equivalent word for this so I made one up
Remember, cows are actually sacred in India, so this wouldn't be offensive.
