If the sword of Islam continues to rise, they’ll be speaking Arabic in no time.
Obama + ISIS = peas in a pod
As a layman on such things, I thought that their adopting English so thoroughly was one of the great, little discussed genius decisions by any nation, in a very long time.
It seemed so brilliant and committed, and effective, that it was almost threatening.
The new PM is sabotaging his party’s future. The hundreds of millions who speak Bengali, Telugu, etc. as their first language will not want to be treated like second class citizens.
That should kill any future outsourcing of phone and
technical support contracts from the English speaking
world. There is trouble enough with the cultural and
timezone issues.
Just please don’t extend that requirement to our help desk, it’s hard enough to understand them as it is ,,,
India has but one advantage as far as I’m concerned: many, if not most, of its citizens speak English. If it weren’t for that, their programmers wouldn’t be in such demand. It’s not because they’re so good - they’re not. The Russians blow them away imo, but the only English most of them know is a programming language. At least that’s what I came away with after seven years talent-spotting in Europe and Australasia.
India is very much a polyglot state - this isn’t going to sit too well with speakers of Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Bengali etc.
Sounds like Quebec.
Haha. Well, what can I say. Try to convince the young that they are no longer to speak English. Dumb sh*ts...
1 step foreward....10 back.
Modi’s picking a fight he doesn’t need to.
He was essentially elected on an economic and development platform, not for social engineering. English is the language for development.