Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


Ar an ceathrú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Michael Farris:

[...] 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?

Which ones should they choose? They tried to impose Hindi as the primary
medium of government, and several people burned themselves alive in
objection to that and in support of Tamil.

Oh, and Indian English is a language of India, at this stage.

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.

Sure, but no European country has to deal with 216 languages spoken by
10,000 or more.

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