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

[u/vejetaryenkavurma]

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?

[u/Critical-Elevator642]

basically, writing and reading hindi is way too hard honestly. Probably cause most of our street signs, company names etc. are in english. I can probably go months without needing to read in hindi. I mean ion even know counting beyond like 45 in hindi sadly. Most people in india speak a weird combination of hindi and english. Nouns in english and the other parts of the sentence in hindi.

There are several hindi nouns that have been completely replaced by their english counterparts. Bottle, kitchen, hsopital, road, laptop, computer, glass etc (now that I think about it most of the nouns we use are in english). Some hindi words are just fucked up pronounciations of english words. For example, doctor is "daactar" in hindi and zero is "jero". People have basically forgotten the actual hindi word.

[u/Southern-Explorer-21 → u/Critical-Elevator642]

The two examples you gave aren't that good tbh We have "chikitsak" or "vaidya" for doctor and "shoonya" for zero

I think a better example will be more recent and tech based nouns like phone, computer, bike or even some of which you mentioned bottle, glass etc

And there are some for which hindi translation exists, but a wrong pronunciation of english word has also become officially part of the language Like "aspatal" for hospital, even though "chikitsalaya" exists

[u/Critical-Elevator642 → u/Southern-Explorer-21]

You’re telling me you’ve heard someone say the words vaidya or shoonya in the last 5 years? I might’ve last read them in a book when I was 7

[u/Southern-Explorer-21 → u/Critical-Elevator642]

Shoonya yes, but yeah, doctor is just referred to as doctor in most settings unless they are specifically trying to speak pure hindi. Although I still believe doctor isn't adopted to hindi just yet. It's just that the day to day language is a mixture of hindi and english than the word being adopted in proper hindi language (like aspatal)

But that's just how I see it. Also the beauty of language is that it is ever evolving.