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English is too precious a resource to be thrown away for appeasement of Hindi-zealots
Prakash Nanda • 8 years agoWhile Prime Minister Narendra Modi is building an image of being a “unifier” in a vast country of pluralities and regional variations such as ours, his government reviving the mission of establishing the primacy of the Hindi language all across India could not have been more untimely.
When punctuation makes a fine point: The comma can go, but not the stop
Mahesh • 9 years agoWhat would our sentences be like without vital punctuation, like the full stop?
In defence of Angrezi: Modi speaks the language of Macaulayputras
Sagarikag • 11 years agoAngrezi may not be our mother tongue, but it does remain our Father Tongue.
Mission impossible: Google's Endangered Language Project
Fp Staff • 13 years agoGoogle's latest project, called the Endangered Languages, hopes to digitally archive some languages of the world that could soon become extinct.
Mission impossible: Google's Endangered Language Project
Fp Staff • 13 years agoGoogle's latest project, called the Endangered Languages, hopes to digitally archive some languages of the world that could soon become extinct.