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> The process of Baking is what makes a Bread a bread. Says who? The dictionary? It can change. You forget that language is a social construct, and like it or
by jasim 10y ago
> The process of Baking is what makes a Bread a bread.
Says who? The dictionary? It can change. You forget that language is a social construct, and like it or not, India is a country of a billion people with a different cultural context and we're going to make words up, or overload new meanings to existing words. And there is nothing you can do about it. That's how language works. You could claim ownership over it and try to dictate and browbeat alternate usages, but come to India, and try telling them that Appam is not a Bread, they'll tell you "of course not, Appam is an Indian Bread".
- eastern 10y agoEnglish-speaking Indian living in India here, been eating rotis, naans, parathas, bhatirey, dosa, appams every day for half a century. ALWAYS thought of all these as Indian breads. So does everyone else. For example, look at the menu of a famous Indian restaurant: https://www.zomato.com/ncr/bukhara-itc-maurya-chanakyapuri-new-delhi/menu https://www.zomato.com/ncr/bukhara-itc-maurya-chanakyapuri-n... There are countless other menus on that site that do the same. The article gets it absolutely correct.
- sridca 10y agoEnglish-speaking South Indian (Tamil) living in Canada & India here. NEVER thought of dosas, idlis, idiyappam, uthappam, etc. as a "bread".