Being in a #public institute in #india, the government has directed us to use #hindi along with #English in all official mails.
With members from all over the country in the community, this was exclusionary.
At the same time, a subset of Hindi speakers used a highly #sanskrit -ized version of the #language in debate mailing threads, presumably to show intellectual prowess?
A student, and a friend of mine, sent out this mail today in response to this practice.
Nice story. All fictional, or based on some factual sources? Even British sources would count if you can come up with them.
Its a pathetic joke to put the colonization tag on a post about the national language of the country being promoted. You seem to be a confused #Elite with all the spit and polish of pukka English, but there are others too in the country and they would know more about their mother tongue than you. Talking to them would have taught you that
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1.a) most languages in India, including Hindi, derive from Sanskrit/Prakrit and hence share much of their vocabulary - even Chinese seems to have highly differentiated regional dialects, maybe no confused elites there
1.b) so, Hindi can't be Sanskrit-ized, since it is a Persian-ized variant of Sanskrit/Prakrit
2.a) Indian languages other than Hindi have remained almost completely safe from Persian-ization
2.b) so, it is a no-brainer that un-Persian-ized Hindi would suit most of India
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