It was around 2 years ago, that i came across an article stating English as the ‘Lingua Franca‘ of the world. The article was in English and successfully reading and understanding it gave me a feeling of pride. I proudly declared “Huh! mujhe bhi ati hai angrizi toh” (i also know the language). Being at the heart of India, we Dilliwallas feel proud to speak English and never give up a change to flaunt it.
But, this ‘Angrezi (English) loving culture‘ of ours is not liked much by the Englishmen. Do they see it as an insult?? But why??
When talking about the pronunciation and, how can we forget the Gujarati ‘Snakes’ (snacks) and ‘takes’ (tax) or the Bengali ‘brij‘ (breeze) and the ‘shit of paper’(sheet of paper) or the Punjabi celebration of ‘birday‘ (birthdays). Almost all Punjabi folks have a good ‘kraktar‘ (character) or must have heard of Rajasthani ‘sakuls‘ (schools) or ‘telefoon‘ (telephone) or the ‘chaak‘ (chalk).
Our Delhi does not belong to any particular caste (atleast now), it represents a miniature of India. You just enter the NCR and you will be no stranger to these words and there literal meaning.
“Ab samajh ayaa?? Why Britishers left India? Simple hai yaar…voh apni bhasha ki yeh durdasha abrdasht nahi kar paye honge.”
( Do you know why the Britishers left India? They couldn’t witness such a humiliation to their mother tongue.)
But friends, “Ki farak pahenda hai?” keep speaking keep flaunting. Yeh ‘Eng-dish’(English) mere yaar.
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i too know the fact that English is not known all over the world, but the nations associated with US economy, in a way, are trying to have a firm grip over the language…. and nations good at english have benefitted a lot. India is also one of those nations..
I’m glad you understand English, and I wish you well.
I’m not at all sure that English is a universally understood lingua franca, and I’m not convinced that it should be.
I favour the planned international language Esperanto.