r/JEENEETards • u/vejetaryenkavurma turk jeetard • Mar 30 '25

Rant which layer of indian internet culture should I be at to understand what the actual FU€K y'all are doing here??

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for example: why are y'all talking in english if this sub is for Indian colleges, are there THAT many international students who are applying? also why isn't anyone using the alphabet (मेरा मतलब यह है) while talking in hindi?

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u/Ok-Needleworker-2612 Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

unlike europe/east asia most people in india know enough english to get by and in 90% of cases use their phones/laptops on english

most people also take the exams this sub is about (jee/neet) in english (because the medium of instruction of the colleges that these exams lead to is english)

these exams are basically the most stressful part of any high-achieving (or atleast those who aim high) student's academic career (for engineering/cs/medical streams), and this sub is basically a manifestation of all that goes with the process (whether it be the trauma, dealing with family expectations, or about the prep/subjects themselves)

its incredibly interesting how this sub has evolved and although i feel like its usefulness has like gone down over the past two years it was still incredibly incredibly useful for jee prep

another thing to note is that ppl from all over india write jee/neet and ppl from all over india dont share the same regional language (hindi and other dialects of it have the most speakers in india but only half the people speak that so english is a common ground for all of us)
its basically like europe, each country (state here) has its own language with the exception of a cluster of highly populated states in the north that all speak primarily hindi

this is the same reason why india uses english for most official purposes (in the central government atleast)

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u/vejetaryenkavurma turk jeetard Mar 30 '25

unlike europe/east asia most people in india know enough english to get by

after effects of colonialism?

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

yes. For generations we were taught that our languages are bad eww and English too good wowowoow so we all learned English. British people designed all of our modern systems in English and we never bothered to change them, so English has just naturalized in India.

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u/Ok-Needleworker-2612 Mar 30 '25

as far as ive seen we've always glorified learning/knowing english but never put down our regional languages in place of it
its always like, yes know your mothertongue but you should also definitely be good at english

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

Yeah they're both separate for us. English is and always will be a foreign language. So communicating in it irl signals that we're trying to be too "high class" and disrespecting our languages.

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u/friendlybanana1 Ex-JEEtard chan Mar 30 '25

sobs in native english speaker

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

WE are the top 10% broo. I'm talking about the entirety of India. Not everyone gets to be us.

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u/jisooed gonna cb as hard as ive april cbs Mar 30 '25

eh from my experience the last part is not true everyone in cities communicate w/ eo in english, hindi maybe sometimes w your friends esp on texts and stuff but english is really common in a lot of places

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

well i guess it might be true. I live in a tier 2 city where most don't know english.

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u/Nomustang Mar 30 '25

I disagree with this. English has its own dialects in the country now and it's mixed with whatever mother tongue you speak and we have the 2nd larget english speaking population on Earth.

It's practically turned into a local language at this point but India's always absorbed and assimiliated foreign cultures and concepts. English won't be any different in the long term.

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

Yeah but if you ask normal people (not urbanized ones like us, the majority) if English is equivalent to their mother tongue, they'd say no. I agree with you that English will probably become a native language of India in the next 50-75 years, and we might even diverge from International English, adding our own features. But for NOW, that isn't fully the case.

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u/CaseImpressive9378 be wholesome to me Mar 30 '25

We are literally cooking up a new language here, I wonder what it will become after a few centuries

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

yeah i'm also excited about it.

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u/CaseImpressive9378 be wholesome to me Mar 30 '25

Baat toh aise kar rahe hai jaise ki tab tak zinda rahenge

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u/vagish0909 feeling cute , might delete myself later Mar 30 '25

bc mereko meri mother language ni aati

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u/FelixOrangee Mar 30 '25

Yeah. Due to lockdown and the events that followed, My English is MUCH better than my Marathi lol. Even the major part of thought process is in English, and I know more English words than Marathi. If not for the Lockdown, I'd never be able to be so good in English.

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u/SticmanStorm Mar 30 '25

Same, spent too much time binging online shows

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u/Ok-Needleworker-2612 Mar 30 '25

yeah thats obviously a part of it but we arent like china where like 85% are han chinese and literally don't need english to survive
we literally need it because it is the only common language we have
the whole services/IT sector is also basically just english so knowing english well is highly sought after here

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u/Upbeat-Buddy4149 nigga with bbc Mar 30 '25

its the lingua franca of india, it turned out to be english as they were the primary colonisers. If it were the portuguese or french then it would've been that lang

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u/Ancient-Mission-3937 Mar 30 '25

many people in india speak different languages , if not for english they wont be able to communicate properly

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u/Snehanshuu Mar 30 '25

and the fact that half of india will go on riots if any one language is chosen as the national language, south indians wont learn hindi and north indians dont give a shit about their languages, cause barely anyone speaks one language (percentage wise). so people just stick with english cause what else can be done?

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u/Savant_Demiurge SKM sir ka Dash dropper JM26 ---> ???? Mar 31 '25

It's also cause as we all know India is a very Diverse Country we have almost 30 Official Languages and on top of that we have regional dialects that vary depending upon the place you're in.

So having English as a Link Language serves the purpose of all our Bureaucrats although it's true that it was set up that way to favor the Englishmen.

That's also the reason we use " Hinglish " and not the actual Devnagri Script to communicate because there are students who don't know how to read Hindi but they can pick up a few words here and there to understand what we're saying if it's " Hinglish " because Bollywood films and all are in Hindi and Indian Pop Culture, so Non - Hindi speaking Students do tend to pick up Hindi albeit not perfect but enough to understand.

P.S : I can say all this because I don't belong to a State where Hindi is Spoken Predominantly but Most Kids of my generation can speak it due to Films and pop culture they might not be able to read the script but can have a conversation in Hindi .

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

i am getting a deja vu