Thursday, October 7, 2010

PAUL HENRY NZTV HOST LAUGHS ABOUT THE NAME DICKSHIT



To Indian speakers the foreign names are are rather more funny and ridiculous but we don't make a fun like that because we know its not our language. We cannot derive meaning out of a foreign name
• As for me I don't find any problem with any language. Proper nouns derive their pronunciation from their own language. And when the native speaker tries to pronounce a foreign name he would generally mispronounce it unless he goes to the parent language and learns it from there.
Every language has this problem.
In all there are 300 universal sounds which humans can produce. Any single language doesn't use all these sounds. For example English uses 44 sounds against 26 symbols. Where as Hindi uses 52 and Sanskrit about 62 or so.
English specially has great problem as the orthographic symbols in it do not correspond to an exact sound. One and the same symbol is used for different sounds at different places.That's why English is said to be the most unscientific language of the world.
Sanskrit being the only 100% scientific language.
People forming any personal openion on, are just biased either by race or country.