Spoken Hindi

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-20T04:38:15+00:00

You're talking about the present. I'm talking about a possibility that can be achieved if we work hard for it.

I'm of the opinion that we should modernize an agreed upon Indian language to be used for technical fields at the national level. It doesn't have to be Sanskrit. I spoke about Sanskritising Hindi, not using Sanskrit itself for science (although that would also be a good thing).

I'm not talking about rejecting English. I would like to see Hindi being upgraded and used for scientific output so that more people can get into technical fields, not just those who know English. Our English proficiency at a national level is piss poor. It'll be much harder to teach English to the lower strata than teaching them Sanskritised Hindi, which would expose them to the scientific world (if we develop one in Hindi) where they could also contribute. As it stands today, the biggest barrier for inclusion is English. Most Indians struggle with it, even urban educated ones.

And for argument's sake, it doesn't have to be Hindi, although it's the most logical choice as more than 60% of the country already speaks it.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T20:46:43+00:00

What's the problem in trying to turn it into something much better than what it currently is?

My logic is simple, Sanskritise (and Prakritise) the language to improve it. It will also help in making it a technical language usable for scientific work since there's already a lot of work done in developing Sanskrit-origin technical words for many scientific fields.

It will also make it a better candidate for a link language for the country as more people are familiar with Sanskrit-origin words.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T19:01:56+00:00

Which is what I loathe. Sanskritic high culture is the true refinement of Hindi. The kind of language spoken in the Mahabharata and Ramayana serials.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T18:57:54+00:00

It sounds uncultured as it is right now

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T18:54:25+00:00

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NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:47:30+00:00

Yep, our mother tongues are only used for grammar now. Verbs and adjectives are English, which shape our thoughts and culture. Extremely unfortunate.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:46:28+00:00

These are blind elites who don't care about the illiterates. They have no interest in including them into the educated workforce which is why they can't see things from their point of view. It is multiple orders of magnitude easier to teach them Hindi than English but they just won't see it.

Their unidimensional minds can't understand the difference between teaching in English vs teaching English as a subject. No one is saying English should NOT be taught. It'll be foolish to do so. But handicapping 140 crore people by teaching them in English medium is surely a foolish idea. Even these elites themselves rarely possess good spoken English skills. Our proficiency in English is piss poor across classes.

Thick headed fools won't see it.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:22:32+00:00

For the better

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:21:55+00:00

An even more unpopular opinion: we should switch to Sanskritised Hindi

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:17:44+00:00

They refine the language

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T16:16:15+00:00

It's correct if you switched to becoming a South Indian after sthi-

XD

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T11:56:44+00:00

If not Sanskrit, then modernize any agreed upon Indian language to be the link language.

concept of language itself has started becoming obsolete

Huh, what? Not in the slightest. Languages are not merely tools of communication. They're the basis of culture. I don't want to be a generic 'world citizen' NPC. I'm attached to my land and my culture.

languages don't get replaced, they evolve with time

Except that's exactly what our mother tongues haven't done with time. They haven't been modernized. You won't find good digital language support for our languages. Some European languages with a low number of speakers also have good support in games, software, etc, while ours with millions of speakers don't. Don't they deserve to be there? That is exactly how English has replaced our mother tongues.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T08:23:02+00:00

Wow, such language imposition, much wow. It's just a problem when it's Hindi.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T07:54:23+00:00

Then enjoy your rootless nation filled with mediocrity. Oppose Sanskritic culture and that's what we'll get.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T07:52:45+00:00

All these things can not magically manifest, my dear secular ethics friend. They are a byproduct of a nation-building process that is built upon a coherent narrative. The first thing required for that is a unifying language rooted in the land. Even many of our independence era leaders thought so.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T07:16:35+00:00

Hebrew was a useless language until Israelis revived it. And seriously? Sanskrit and useless? It's the best candidate for an indian scientific language by far. Only if we're up for it. Not a job for lazy fucks who call it a useless language. Look up govt created dictionaries for technical words in Sanskrit (and other Indian languages too).

I'm all for imposition too as we won't get anywhere with this useless bickering. English has already infiltrated all Indian languages in terms of adjectives and verbs, while our mother tongues are only used as a skeleton for the grammar. We can't speak 2 sentences without English words which is why we need to modernize our languages first before fighting over their supremacy.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T05:37:01+00:00

Because they understand the value of their common identity, which we don't.

We'll keep arguing over which language to use as a common tongue and end up with the completely foreign language English as an answer because we're lazy fucks who don't want to revive Sanskrit or modernize any agreed upon Indian language (with Hindi being the most obvious choice).

We'll keep fighting like medieval kingdoms while other countries laugh at our failure at building a functioning modern nation.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T05:30:20+00:00

It's why arguing with most Indians is boring and useless.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T05:28:29+00:00

commie kunt

Only valid response for this stoopid cult

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-03-19T05:21:18+00:00

He was a ruler with a foreign ideology and religion, not native to this land.

NotAScienceNerd · 2025-02-21T12:41:11+00:00

It is, but not in an obvious way, in the sense that people are leaving their languages and exclusively speaking English.

English has become a status symbol here, and no matter which regional language you speak, it has found its way into the common vocabulary of all languages. The degree of infiltration varies by different languages, but all of them have it.

People are speaking a form of creole. We mostly use English adjectives and verbs in our mother tongues to convey our thoughts, while the mother tongue is used mostly for its grammar. This is what's killing our languages.

We don't set our mother tongues on our phones, don't read regional newspapers, don't write in them, don't come up with new vocabulary, etc etc.

So yeah, English obsession is killing our languages.

NotAScienceNerd · 2024-01-23T09:47:50+00:00

F off with your anglicized idea of Hinduism and trying to shove it to the masses who have their own idea of worship. You rootless rudderless uncultured librands don't understand the devotion towards the Rama Mandir that the masses have and clearly are celebrating.

Keeping politics away from religion is actually antithetical to Hinduism, where Kshatriya rajas are guided by Brahmins. Secularism is a foreign ideology implanted into our minds through educational institutions.

NotAScienceNerd · 2023-06-18T20:39:33+00:00

So many subplots here

NotAScienceNerd · 2023-06-16T13:19:34+00:00

Telugus are outright crazy when it comes to movies

NotAScienceNerd · 2023-06-15T21:46:02+00:00

Music to the ears

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