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#6444

English Is Better Than Hindi

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Religion
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English
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Hindi
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Three days
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Mieky's avatar
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English is seldom mocked by many agenda driven persons to gain votes by fooling people in The name of nationalism. They use arguments like Hindi is native to India. Using English we are bowing to The West. Hindi is better(citing old fairy tales Vedas pedas tedas). Such propaganda needs to be stopped because English is the Future. If someone can prove to me that Hindi is better, it's open challenge to whole India

Round 1
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TheDisguisedAtheist
Pro
#1
English is the International language. English unites the world. English unites India(South and North). Jobs require English, Wedding card have English. The language we are having a debate is English. The language common to you and me is English. The parliament has English, the court has English. English has dug its way to #1 language of the world for a reason. It keeps improving and changing with time. It adopts good vocab from other languages too. 
On the other hand Hindi
Hindi is a language spoken only in the Northern belt of India, not used for professional reasons. Is literally watered down Sanskrit and Urdu, and still keeps on getting diluted. It has lost its vocab with time, leave alone adding. People nowadays can't even talk completely in Hindi, the language being spoken by people nowadays isn't even Hindi, it's Hinglish. It's getting mixed with English more and more every day. A language which originated from a language which is dead(Sanskrit) and proceeds towards its end as it gets more and more diluted and added with English, can't be asserted as better than English. People who say Hindi is better are also using the English alphabet because using The Hindi Alphabet is very hard and time taking. The Hindi Alphabet is irrelevant to modern Computers and Devices. 

Just a personal note,
How a 19 year old girl, born in America, borrowing her brother's phone, speaking English, is going to prove that Hindi is better or Even Hindi is equivalent to English, to a boy in India who grew up learning English and Hindi simultaneously and knows flaws of both of the Languages and Trends in India 
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Mieky
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#2
Kid calm down...

First off, Just because English is widely spoken doesnt not make it better at all. English is only popular due to historical Colonization not because its better. Popularity is not the same as values kid. 

1. Idenity, Culture and Depth
Hindi has over thousands of year of different cultures, literature and history, English is a global spoken language but Hindi connects over 600 million native speakers to their roots, traditions and all together their Idenity. Saying Hindi is just "Watered down Sanskrit" is ignoring its history and values. And if you do your research English is just a mix of different languages such as German, French and Latin and yet you dont see me calling English "Diluted."

2. Expressiveness 
Hindi has a very rich poetic structure that can allow people to express them selves thats something English can't match. For example words like, jugaad  (creative fix) Mehfil (Gathering) or rasa (essence). These words have no direct English equivalent. 

3. Bilingual
Saying "English unites India" is not true. India is one of the most Multilingual countries in the whole world. Most of them Speak both Hindi and English it gives them professional advantages and more. Being Bilingual is proven to improve tons of things like Improve memory, problem solving and adaptability so Hindi speakers who also speak English always have Advantage over only English speakers

4. Technology and Relevancey
Your claim that Hindi scripts are "Irrelevant to Computers" is so outdated. Unicode supports supporting easyly. And millions of apps, devices and websites operate in the Hindi language Daily. Also Voice ai's, Keyboards, and lots of other stuff are increasingly integrated into Hindi proving how modern and adaptable the language really is.

5. English has issues
If your criticizing Hindi for mixing with English (Hinglish) then English should be criticized for constantly stealing words from other languages if we are being fair. For Example, Pizza from Italians, Cafe from the French and they also stole emoji from the Japanese. The more a Language exist the more it evolves. Adaptability is a strength not a weakness pal. 

And finally to address this 
"How a 19 year old girl, born in America, borrowing her brother's phone, speaking English, is going to prove that Hindi is better or Even Hindi is equivalent to English, to a boy in India who grew up learning English and Hindi simultaneously and knows flaws of both of the Languages and Trends in India?"

First off my personal life has nothing to do with this debate little boy. I was not born in America, I'm not 19 anymore, I'm not borrowing my brother phone and yea I speak English and so do you that doesn't mean anything towards a debate you're just criticizing my person life for no reason but to anger me. Lets say I assume stuff and criticize you.

How is an India boy, using a Sheep pfp who's most impressive Educational feat going to Highschool going to prove that English is a better Language than Hindi? To a grown women who is fluent in 5 languages ???? 



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