Bengaluru! WTF?

[preets]

I so very disapprove of Bangalore being renamed as "Bengaluru"!
And bull crap the 'u' vowel distinguishes our language as per the great Jnanpith Award winner, Mr.You-Are-A-Jobless-Freaku-Ananthmurthy!
The man also adds "By adding the ‘u,’ even words like chair-u and table-u become KannadaWTF? what was he even thinking when he made such a

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[zoombiee]

Wats wrong in naming a city in the way it should be called and not in the way other people call it. To Germans Munich is Munchen. Same thing here.

[preets]

well...not at a time when the city is being globally recognised as "Bangalore"! and definitely cannot afford this at a time when there are other very very important things like infrastructure to be taken care for! and surely not for the afore mentioned lame reason!

and yeah, for the Germans Munich maybe Munchen. so, is the same for us...its still Bengalooru for all us kannadigas...but dont change the name offcially here!
dont you realise the amount of effort/cost/unnecessary changes its gonna take for absolutely no reason at all?

[zoombiee]

well...not at a time when the city is being globally recognised as "Bangalore""
Bah!. This is a very bad argument. People dont come here coz its called blore. They come here for the value they get. The day they dont get value Blore or Bluru doesnt matter.

"definitely cannot afford this at a time when there are other very very important things like infrastructure to be taken care for!"
Wat has renaming got to do with improving infrastructure. These are 2 diff things.

Munich is officially Munchen. U may continue to call Bluru to Blore, but officially it shud be bluru.

"dont you realise the amount of effort/cost/unnecessary changes its gonna take for absolutely no reason at all"
This isnt goin to be a big cost as many predict.

[preets]

dude! if the first one is bad argument what is a good one then?! The city has been recognised for its value alright, but, its also recognised as "Bangalore"! are we on the same page here? Changing the name is sure not a good idea especially for a city like Bangalore and it isnt as easy as you see it. i'm cent percent sure of teh chaos/confusion its gonna create once changed.

and coming to the second argument... i meant i'd anyday prefer the govt spending the same effort/cost in infrastructure to sitting and wasting their their time and money over rechristening the city.

and who has predicted that its not gonna be a big cost?

for what joy are they doing this? just coz one Ananthmurthy suggested that? did they take an opinion poll from the Bangaloreans? isnt their opinion equally important?

[preets]

and isnt "Bendakaalooru" the apt name for the city according to you?
how did "Bengaluru" come into picture here?

[bipin]

and isnt "Bendakaalooru" the apt name for the city according to you?
how did "Bengaluru" come into picture here?
It's simple. They'll wait until the whole thing dies down, and everyone's grudgingly accepted 'Bengaluru'. Then, when the next elections are looming, they'll bring it up saying the city should no longer be called 'Bengaluru', but 'Bendakaalooru'.

You don't give them enough credit.

[zoombiee]

coz all bangaloreans( people here from a long time) call it Bengaluru.

[preets]

exactly my point. now think again as to what you have just said. then think about the implications of the effect.

[zoombiee]

Nothing to think. Have mentioned wat I think.

[bipin]

Though I see where you're coming from, I don't find your argument sufficient.
This is a very bad argument. People dont come here coz its called blore
Well, that might be true. But there are things like brand recall and image. If coca-cola was suddenly renamed to 'kvathilumzry', are you saying it won't reflect in their sales at all? Bangalore is a brand, and it's time we woke up to that.

Wat has renaming got to do with improving infrastructure. These are 2 diff things.
Two different things which both require the same fundamental resources - time, civil work and money. I think preets argument is that these resources are better spent on the latter.

This isnt goin to be a big cost as many predict.
I'm genuinely puzzled by this. What does that mean? Are you actually suggesting that renaming a city isn't expensive