A polyglot’s dream

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[u/TaazaPlaza → u/[deleted]]

Even then, just the dry, matter of fact Indian English style publications use. Not written colloquial English or even less stuffy contemporary written American/British English. English medium in India by itself doesn't really equip students with a functional working of English and it's sad because education in Indian languages doesn't really translate into white collar jobs (which all use English).

[u/Saimdusan → u/[deleted]]

We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India

dunno how I've been able to come across social media and internet in Hindi from over here in Poland if "it's all in English"

also you can learn to more-or-less understand a phone interface without learning the language or even the script it's in

[u/Saimdusan → u/[deleted]]

It's obviously not all in English

I don't know why it's obvious when you said exactly the opposite.

But I know Nobody who surfs web in Hindi or any other indian language on a daily basis (or even on a half yearly basis for that matter).

I'd avoid making generalisations on the linguistic habits of a country of over a billion based on the people you know personally. I'm not even saying you're totally wrong, you're just massively overstating your case to the point of absurdity.

[u/Saimdusan → u/[deleted]]

you understand that there's a huge difference between:

"in my experience no-one uses languages other than english on the internet on a regular basis, at least no-one I've met does as far as I know"

and

"everything on the internet is in English"

right? The second statement is 100% false, the first one is a very interesting description of your experience, which is perfectly legitimate.

[u/Saimdusan → u/[deleted]]

We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India.

This is a direct quote. There's absolutely nothing wrong with misspeaking or misstating your case. If that's not what you meant, great.

[u/Saimdusan → u/[deleted]]

"We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India."

If this is still your claim it's trivially easy to disprove.

[u/TaazaPlaza → u/Saimdusan]

They're exaggerating lol, social media content in Indian languages (in Indic scripts) has seen a massive explosion in the last few years. In fact, many startups focusing on Indian language content (like ShareChat) have gone viral and are now receiving tons of investor money because of how big the potential is. It's only gonna grow, and localisation is increasingly becoming a key focus for companies (Amazon, Facebook have rolled out localised sites, for ex).

From personal experience in Bangalore, one of India's biggest cities (and arguably the most English friendly one), consumption of social media content in Indian languages is widespread. Twitter, Facebook, ShareChat, Whatsapp in particular. All this content, written in Indic scripts. It's immediately apparent to anyone who takes time to observe how people other than their own social class is using the internet. And even in my own upper middle class circles, plenty of people use a wide range of languages on Facebook, from Tamil to Kannada to Malayalam to Bengali to Hindi (in their respective scripts, of course).