[Magdalen] Tower of Babel.

[Jay Weigel]

Hindi and English are the two main official languages of India. Most
educated people there know both. Unlike this country where being bi- or
trilingual is looked on with suspicion.....

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 11:34 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I checked online on the subject of Tamil ethnics because this makes uppart
> of the ethnic background of one of our popular USA Presidentialcandidates.
> In doing so, I noted what a polyglot country India is.  Thereare dozens of
> languages spoken by millions and only a relatively smallnumber of primary
> Hindi speakers.  Some of the languages areIndoEuropean and some are not.
> For some reason, the USA does not have a significant number of Tamils,but
> there is a large community in Canada.
> This situation in India makes me wonder how the ethnics communicate.
> And yet there is complaint about the increasingly bilingual USA.
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> David Strang.
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