Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx napisal(a):

many Indian English speakers use only English for a significant
proportion of the subjects they talk about and in cosmopolitan
gatherings where the best known common language is English, they use
English even for conversations they know how to conduct in an Indian
language.

That's sad. Why don't Indians care more about Indian languages?
In Europe it's accepted that the native language should serve as many
functions as possible, for small minority languages (like Frisian)
that's hard, but even Lithuanian or Slovak (with 5 million or less
speakers) are used at all levels of education and government AFAIK
widespread knowledge of foreign languages notwithstanding.


-michael farris

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