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Why would India use Mandarin? English is the most common script in India, why would we use anything else. Unless you are Hindian trying to impose your minority

by FraaJad 10y ago

Why would India use Mandarin? English is the most common script in India, why would we use anything else. Unless you are Hindian trying to impose your minority language on the rest of us.

gnipgnip 10y ago
Wow. Just wow. - English is hardly the "most common script". Just because the retainers in Delhi impose the colonial apparatus on us, doesn't automagically give it "statistical power" as well. - Every state has a (poor, uneducated, illiterate) captive linguistic population more than that of Korea; no reason they ought to use Hindi, nor even Nagari (script != language, in case your education didn't tell you that). - Among the rich, yes, English is most common, and this is really what matters in the end, aint it ? This is precisely why India will never be able to work in its own language, and also precisely why it is doomed to eternal poverty and continued illiteracy. Probably will remain a hub exporting little other than people, for the next couple centuries. (See: https://youtu.be/SJx0KFtm9Rw?t=21m56s https://youtu.be/SJx0KFtm9Rw?t=21m56s) And this is why I admire China. It's not democratic, it has a paranoid regime, but at least they aren't run by hypocrites who'd use a "socialist democracy" as cover for continued colonization. > trying to impose your minority language on the rest of us. Your skills in generating irony amuse me.
- wstrange 10y ago
  Note the debate you are having with the GP is in English. For better or worse, English is the common language for software development (and aviation, etc.)
  - gnipgnip 10y ago
    > Note the debate you are having with the GP is in English. You don't say ? > For better or worse, English is the common language for software development (and aviation, etc.) English in India is more dense than the feudal castes of medieval Europe; hardly a professional thing this. The Human-rights wallahs don't complain precisely because the current state of affairs benefits the nations that control them; much as it does their native retainers.

by FraaJad 10y ago

Why would India use Mandarin? English is the most common script in India, why would we use anything else. Unless you are Hindian trying to impose your minority language on the rest of us.

gnipgnip 10y ago

Wow. Just wow. - English is hardly the "most common script". Just because the retainers in Delhi impose the colonial apparatus on us, doesn't automagically give it "statistical power" as well. - Every state has a (poor, uneducated, illiterate) captive linguistic population more than that of Korea; no reason they ought to use Hindi, nor even Nagari (script != language, in case your education didn't tell you that). - Among the rich, yes, English is most common, and this is really what matters in the end, aint it ? This is precisely why India will never be able to work in its own language, and also precisely why it is doomed to eternal poverty and continued illiteracy. Probably will remain a hub exporting little other than people, for the next couple centuries. (See: https://youtu.be/SJx0KFtm9Rw?t=21m56s https://youtu.be/SJx0KFtm9Rw?t=21m56s) And this is why I admire China. It's not democratic, it has a paranoid regime, but at least they aren't run by hypocrites who'd use a "socialist democracy" as cover for continued colonization. > trying to impose your minority language on the rest of us. Your skills in generating irony amuse me.

wstrange 10y ago
Note the debate you are having with the GP is in English. For better or worse, English is the common language for software development (and aviation, etc.)
- gnipgnip 10y ago
  > Note the debate you are having with the GP is in English. You don't say ? > For better or worse, English is the common language for software development (and aviation, etc.) English in India is more dense than the feudal castes of medieval Europe; hardly a professional thing this. The Human-rights wallahs don't complain precisely because the current state of affairs benefits the nations that control them; much as it does their native retainers.