tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209068.post1609437577316269302..comments2023-11-02T13:02:02.590+05:30Comments on Basket Case: Why we need to look beyond English !abhagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02584059046263945740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209068.post-75239831633408486872007-07-01T15:04:00.000+05:302007-07-01T15:04:00.000+05:30hello i read ur view and i believe it is very n...hello <BR/> i read ur view and i believe it is very necessary to save our regional languages though it would be urdu hindi sanskrit or any other language but as english is an international english we would take care of that as well. i m from pakistan and here also i found many students who are exciting about speaking english and somehow they forgot their own language i.e. urdu. why today's generation would prefer to speak in english and not in their own language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209068.post-84279413332213159672007-01-15T11:09:00.000+05:302007-01-15T11:09:00.000+05:30I agree with the market argument but only to a lim...I agree with the market argument but only to a limited extent. In fact I am also only pointing out that there exists a market. Why companies are not going after it may be because of many reasons. Probably the markets aren't lucrative enough. My argument is that there are benefits in trying to develop these markets which may not be financial and so off the radar of corporate world.<br /><br />To the question of social and technological change, I am specifically talking about the case when you have two ways of going about solving the same problem and not in general. So while a social change has to happen to solve some problem, technology can surely play the role of being the spearhead and may be reducing the extent of social change required to minimal which might be desired in some cases.<br /><br />So while I believe that more and more people in India should learn English but they need not learn it in place of their languages believing that they are waste. The cost of letting such believes settle down are huge.abhagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02584059046263945740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209068.post-76409554096209613882007-01-15T07:59:00.000+05:302007-01-15T07:59:00.000+05:30Actually I think the market automatically drives m...Actually I think the market automatically drives many of the cases and things may not be as bad as they seem. For instance, here in the US almost all customer service operations are available in at least english and spanish. So if the companies perceive a market in supplying regional language support, I'm sure it'll happen. This reduces the problem to one of convincing the companies :-)<br /><br />Slightly OT: I don't completely agree with "This way we reach them fast since speed of technological development is always faster than the cultural changes." In fact, more often than not, I think they go hand in hand. That is, technological changes bring about cultural changes and vice-versa. And in India at least I would argue that cultural changes have out-sped technological changes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6209068.post-5645499539943102392007-01-14T20:13:00.000+05:302007-01-14T20:13:00.000+05:30I have also observed this strange package sizes in...I have also observed this strange package sizes in swiss but they always write the price also in terms of Fr/Gr. or Fr/lt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com