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Largest English speaking nation.
The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English.
The educated people of India are fluent in English and the benefits are clear including providing internet advice when I call the manufacturer on the phone.
On my last visit to Korea I saw how their emphasis on making English the second language is paying off. Often when I was the only American visitor at a house I would hear children reciting "ABC's" or counting in English. India should stop supporting or promoting the native languages and really push English. The only objection might be that it is a vestige of "colonialism". But who cares if it can make the country more prosperous. And with a billion people speaking English, Indians could become the standard setters for proper usage not some guys in Oxford.
The educated people of India are fluent in English and the benefits are clear including providing internet advice when I call the manufacturer on the phone.
On my last visit to Korea I saw how their emphasis on making English the second language is paying off. Often when I was the only American visitor at a house I would hear children reciting "ABC's" or counting in English. India should stop supporting or promoting the native languages and really push English. The only objection might be that it is a vestige of "colonialism". But who cares if it can make the country more prosperous. And with a billion people speaking English, Indians could become the standard setters for proper usage not some guys in Oxford.
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[nq:1]The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English. The educated people of India ... [/nq] Shabash Huzoor!
- [nq:1]The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English.
- The educated people of India ...
- [/nq] Shabash Huzoor!
- John Dean Oxford
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[nq:1]The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English. The educated people of India ... And with a billion people speaking English, Indians could become the standard setters for proper usage not some guys in Oxford.[/nq]
Shabash Huzoor!
John Dean
Oxford
Shabash Huzoor!
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English. The educated people of India ... languages?! India already is a multilingual nation, so promoting English more heavily would just add another language to pupils' curricula.[/nq]
It's not like Hindi and all the other hundreds of languages spoken across the subcontinent would interfere with people's using E.
It's not like Hindi and all the other hundreds of languages spoken across the subcontinent would interfere with people's using E.
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[nq:1]Why stop supporting native languages?! India already is a multilingual nation, so promoting English more heavily would just add another language to pupils' curricula. It's not like Hindi and all the other hundreds of languages spoken across the subcontinent would interfere with people's using E.[/nq]
It is often the case that two Indians' only common language is English, so it is natural
It is often the case that two Indians' only common language is English, so it is natural
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[nq:2]Why stop supporting native languages?! India already is a multilingual ... spoken across the subcontinent would interfere with people's using E.[/nq]
[nq:1]It is often the case that two Indians' only common language is English, so it is natural that English should become the language of business and government. I fail to understand the motive for preserving languages just for the sake of
[nq:1]It is often the case that two Indians' only common language is English, so it is natural that English should become the language of business and government. I fail to understand the motive for preserving languages just for the sake of
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[nq:1]I fail to understand the motive for preserving languages just for the sake of preserving them. Even languages that have great literatures: how many people read Homer in the original these days, and how greatly impoverished are the lives of those who don't?[/nq]
Much of the great Irish poetry is available, I'm told, only in the original Irish. I think that alone is enough reason to contin
Much of the great Irish poetry is available, I'm told, only in the original Irish. I think that alone is enough reason to contin
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[nq:1]It is often the case that two Indians' only common language is English, so it is natural that English should become the language of business and government.[/nq]
Yes, English or Hindi. And human beings are perfectly capable of using two or more languages, depending on the situation and purpose. In fact the majority of the world's population grows up in a multilingual environment. You may
Yes, English or Hindi. And human beings are perfectly capable of using two or more languages, depending on the situation and purpose. In fact the majority of the world's population grows up in a multilingual environment. You may
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[nq:1]Can Homer be translated so as to preserve the precise tone Homer intended?[/nq]
I'd say no, but I suspect that that includes translations into Modern Greek. I'd guess that it's been centuries, perhaps millenia, since anybody who hasn't made a specific study of that era of the language, has been able to appreciate it in anything approximating the way the original audiences did.
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I'd say no, but I suspect that that includes translations into Modern Greek. I'd guess that it's been centuries, perhaps millenia, since anybody who hasn't made a specific study of that era of the language, has been able to appreciate it in anything approximating the way the original audiences did.
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[nq:2]It is often the case that two Indians' only common ... for preserving languages just for the sake of preserving them.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think it's usually more a matter of, not actively trying to stamp them out, discourage them, mock the users, ... always raise their children in their own language, if given any choice at all. By this natural mechanism, languages persist.[/nq]
Not always.
[nq:1]I think it's usually more a matter of, not actively trying to stamp them out, discourage them, mock the users, ... always raise their children in their own language, if given any choice at all. By this natural mechanism, languages persist.[/nq]
Not always.
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[nq:2]I fail to understand the motive for preserving languages just ... how greatly impoverished are the lives of those who don't?[/nq]
[nq:1]Much of the great Irish poetry is available, I'm told, only in the original Irish. I think that alone is ... am very glad I speak English and don't have to read Shakespeare in, say, French, lovely as that language is.[/nq]
When I spoke of "preserving
[nq:1]Much of the great Irish poetry is available, I'm told, only in the original Irish. I think that alone is ... am very glad I speak English and don't have to read Shakespeare in, say, French, lovely as that language is.[/nq]
When I spoke of "preserving
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[nq:2]It is often the case that two Indians' only common ... that English should become the language of business and government.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, English or Hindi. And human beings are perfectly capable of using two or more languages, depending on the situation and purpose. In fact the majority of the world's population grows up in a multilingual environment. You may be in the minority, then.[/
[nq:1]Yes, English or Hindi. And human beings are perfectly capable of using two or more languages, depending on the situation and purpose. In fact the majority of the world's population grows up in a multilingual environment. You may be in the minority, then.[/
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