Thread by @vakibs

This is simply a time lag. When intellectual lecture in a language (books) is destroyed, popular culture (movies, newspapers) will also be destroyed in a couple of decades.

Hindi movies already use an English creole. This bastardized language is seen as aspirational by people.

https://twitter.com/aammirite/status/1438925279682973699

Full length English movies, documentaries and serialized soap operas are already available on Netflix and other distributors. All made from India. Even TV programming is using code-switched English (50% English and 50% Hindi). I have seen cookery programs like that.

Essentially, nobody gives a damn about the quality of language in spoken popular culture anymore. This is a direct consequence of the reading habits and intellectual culture destroyed in Indian languages. Such language mutilation was unthinkable 3 decades ago. People just forgot.

So just wait a couple of more decades, and you will see language that is comparable to the creoles used by Indian indentured labor. In fact, it will be far worse, because those people actually felt the loss and tried to preserve their culture. We modern Indians mostly don’t care.

^intellectual culture, not lecture. But yeah, that also works. Lecture means reading, and am talking about reading habits anyway. But most Indians don’t comprehend that sense of the word, because their command on English is shallow, even people who think of it as first language.