'There is no language that is superior to another' - Ramaphosa

[Mystic Twilight]

I'm sure the mathematicians disagree, practically the whole planet including computers know mathematics.

 

[losta]

I migrated from India - tell me more about this retreat of english language in India? Where did you hear about this?

HM Amit Shah wants hindi as a link language in the south of India as well and is promoting effectively the language in schools
Here's his speech on this

 

[surface]

HM Amit Shah wants hindi as a link language in the south of India as well and is promoting effectively the language in schools

Vote bank politics though. Also, here you mention link language only but your earlier post mentions retreat of english in education & media. Hindi could be growing as link language within India but english is far from retreat - it is growing along side as well - do you reckon Indians don't go abroad? Of course, Hindi is becoming ubiquitous within india partly due to bollywood influence as well. Heck - someone in Ethiopia uttered some broken bollywood dialog to me few years ago.

 

[losta]

- do you reckon Indians don't go abroad?

Europeans go "abroad".

No need to have english medium education for this. Outside Ireland and Britain, europeans have local medium education and english as a side subject at most. Works pretty well for them.

 

[surface]

Eish.

 

[Jabulani22]

In a society where English is already dominating, there's little chance the indigenous languages will develop well enough to rival developed languages. To compound the issues, black middle class has largely adopted English as a dominant language in their daily lives.

Therefore, they're not going to bother with nuances of their L1 if they have substitute words in English.

Mandarin is the worlds dominant language , dont see many english people subbing in those words .

 

[Jabulani22]

English also doesn't have words for some things in the African languages, isn't that just wonderful?

Im pretty sure you are just making that up .
Throw some at me then .

 

[TheChamp]

Im pretty sure you are just making that up .
Throw some at me then .

I am not, trust me.

 

[ForceFate]

Mandarin is the worlds dominant language , dont see many english people subbing in those words .

It's spoken mostly in China.
Even so, words are modified to sound English. Apparently words like "tycoon" are far eastern in origin.

 

[Jabulani22]

I am not, trust me.

So no examples then ?

 

[ForceFate]

Im pretty sure you are just making that up .
Throw some at me then .

Kwashiorkor (sp), yam, mamba and a bunch of others.

 

[Jabulani22]

It's spoken mostly in China.
Even so, words are modified to sound English. Apparently words like "tycoon" are far eastern in origin.

Or maybe some languages are more adaptive and thereby more advanced ?

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

English also doesn't have words for some things in the African languages, isn't that just wonderful?

Such as?

 

[Knyro]

Im pretty sure you are just making that up .
Throw some at me then .

A funny Zulu one: "bhibiza".

Literally slapping someone on the mouth, mid-sentence, while they are giving you lip.

 

[TheChamp]

Such as?

Sangoma?

 

[Jabulani22]

A funny Zulu one: "bhibiza".

Literally slapping someone on the mouth, mid-sentence, while they are giving you lip.

There is a word for that but yeah nice reach .

 

[Knyro]

There is a word for that but yeah nice reach .

Really? And that would be?

 

[Jabulani22]

Sangoma?

Shaman , healer , got words ......

 

[Jabulani22]

Really? And that would be?

Slap....
Just because some zany very specific meaning is made for a word does not mean its special.
I can do that too , heres a new word zanuglabunda - its the new english word for when a plane is ascending and you need to poop but the seatbelt sign is still on and the captain is an irishman.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Kwashiorkor (sp), yam, mamba and a bunch of others.

The name "yam" appears to derive from Portuguese inhame or Canarian (Spain) ñame .
The main derivations borrow from verbs meaning "to eat".
True yams have various common names across multiple world regions.

I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad...compared to the hundreds of English words with "i" or "e" glued to the front.