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"There is no problem in learning English but we must not disown our own culture and language, all languages born in India are national languages; we need one common language to interact, but it should not be foreign," Mohan Bhagwat said.
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India’s new tongue: From start‑up slogans to Bhojpuri beats and K‑pop catchphrases, India’s new conversation is less about grammar and more about vibe. Turns out, you don’t always need subtitles to belong.
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Satirical dictionaries by Gustave Flaubert and Ambrose Bierce show how words can become detached from their meanings.
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Justice Khanna, speaking at the valedictory session of International Lawyers' Conference organised by apex Bar body Bar Council of India, said laws were meant to resolve disputes, not become disputed themselves.
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Heard of 'trauma dumping' and 'rage farming'? They are now officially on Dictionary.com.
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International Mother Language Day 2023: Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage, according to the United Nations.
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After combing through billions of words, the dictionary editors chose one that captures the experience of lurching from one unprecedented event to another.
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The Union government should abandon its Hindi-centric project and, instead, adopt the multilingual policy it is now obliging IT intermediaries to follow
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New Zealand’s Plain Language Act promotes clear, comprehensible statements when communicating with the public. We should all take a leaf from it.
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The Committee of Parliament on Official Language’s recommendations that Hindi replace English as the sole language of instruction in central institutions, and that regional languages be used in state universities and other non-central educational institutions will have far-reaching adverse consequences
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The CPI(M) state secretariat said, in a statement, the central government should withdraw its proposal to make Hindi a common language, replacing English, across the country.
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The high court had noted that there was no bar on using any other language on their display board and the rule only mandated the shop’s name to be displayed in Marathi.
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‘Eve Saan Lorawn’. ‘Zhee-vawn-shee’. ‘Uh-doe-bee’: The English Nut (Sumanto Chattopadhyay) and Storyboard18 present an easy guide to pronouncing hard-to-pronounce brand names.
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In their new book, scientists Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater put forward the intriguing argument that origins of language lie in cultural improvisation and human imagination.
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How militant metaphors shape the way we think about politics, business, the pandemic and much else.
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Common in interactions between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, sisters and brothers and friends and foes, expletives have been mainstreamed and given the status of gentle ribbing.
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A new study by Lancaster University shows that there’s a significant drop in the use of apostrophes. That’s dismaying.
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‘Oh! Tumhare man mein yeh baat hai?!’ has never been more entertaining.
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Citing the Official Languages Act, 1963, the court asked officials to “follow the provision strictly”
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At a meeting of the state Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal this evening, a number of decisions were taken related to the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) and the Bodo people residing across the state
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What makes the decision more unfavourable is that Google themselves cautioned against using the app for complex tasks saying: “the service is not intended to replace human translators.”
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The campaign will focus on a requirement called universal acceptance (UA), which will help treat all domains names and email addresses equally.
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With the evolution of the digital ecosystem in the country, the adoption of Indic-language scripts has acquired greater importance, both as a matter of convenience for customers as well as a means to expand reach and scope of business
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Currently, voice search feature is available in English and Hindi in India. The other languages being added today are Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government's focus will be on providing better education and employment facilities in the state and easing the pressure on farmers.
