Disheartening to see how linguistic stereotyping works in India. Native assimilated pronunciation of borrowed and local words have been looked down upon and termed "lower class". WTH 😒
Socio-economic classification simplified.
Lower class - Biskut
Middle class - Biskit
Upper class - Cookies
Lower class - Roomal
Middle class - Hankie
Upper class - Kerchief
Lower class - Tamaatar
Middle class - Ta'may'to
Upper class - Toh'mah'toh
Lower class - Sauce
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@avtansa
Disheartening, but hilarious to see that upper class is associated with a vague dialect of French without a proper script. 😂
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@fxdurandy
French speakers will 'cancel them the moment they hear them speaking their fake French.😀
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@avtansa
Hello sir, unrelated to the topic but can you suggest good newsletters, books or video series to learn more about linguistics as a beginner. Thanks in advance 😄
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@panejo22
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Thanks you
@MaybeShek
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@scherzo56
I believe so. Anyways my assertion is not about the particular poster, but rather the attitude towards our own languages.
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@avtansa
Just giving a benefit of doubt to the original Xer(if that's a word),
May be his lower,upper stratification was economics based just as we say tier -1/2/3 cities and didn't mean it in a discriminatory sense. That's my personal interpretation.
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@mishradarsh
I am not critiquing the poster in particular, but the general attitude about our native languages. But the poster did use the word socio-economic in their top post.
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@avtansa
I deeply respect how the Japanese did it - the native assimilated pronunciation of borrowed words was formally accepted/adapted into Japanese using Katakana symbols to represent those sounds. No one frowns upon people saying コピー(kohi) for coffee.
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@SuhaasMathur
Japanese example is very apt. They have such a large number of foreign words, and they are never ashamed of using them in assimilated forms. Here's one Japanese song showcasing them
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@avtansa
It's quite widespread in recent times. In Bengal we would call বড় দিন for Christmas but teenagers of small villages nowadays find it too dull to use. They're presumably " lower class"
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@avtansa
That is incorrect analysis. It is generation gap, not class gap. We have shifted from Hindi to British English to American English.
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@avtansa
Most disappointing part is the number of approvals that post is getting in the form of likes and retweets
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