why is that words like avtar and guru which are indian words are now considred and spoken as english words and most of the spekars don't know that they are hindi words.
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Um , because English borrows from almost all languages. If you recall, the Brits 'managed' India for many years and those words likely drifted into English, because of course those concepts did not exist in English, likely because of the fact that Christianity does not encourage concepts like 'avatar' and 'guru'.
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The true answer to this question may make you just as sad as I am.  We are getting more lazy and as a result less intelligent as a country.  Because we can substitute single letters, numbers and symbols as real words, we are starting to take shortcuts.\n\nIt would not surprise me if in 20 years we have completely eliminated certain words because they are too complicated to remember.  This makes me think of the book "1984" and "new-speak."
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Because of the long and complicated influence from other languages as well as language 'evolution'. English is a germanic language. In 1066, Then french invaded england and we have a huge romance language influence from that. Then we have arabic words, indian words, it goes on and on. Plus some 'olde englishe' words were pronounce differently.  For instance I believe knight didn't have a silent 'k' originally. There have been many other vowel shifts and consonant additions/deletions that leave us with the mess we have today
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Although i dont know much about how things are in india, i know for a fact that it is xenocentrism - viewing other cultures as being superior over one's own culture.\n\nThe american/english culture is everywhere.\ntraditional/local culture is under pressure. \n\nEven in malaysia, everybody's speaking english. \nyeah some speak malay. but everybody's english speaking, especially in the city. They dont speak their mother tongue anymore.
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Why LOL ?  what is funny in this?\n\nGuru Nanak was a great Prophet and have shown many miracles.\n\nHe must be respected as other prophets..if u hv learnt to respect
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its Hindi in a  different dialect\n\nhere's the translation\n\nsometimes u speak like u don't know/recognize me \nlike a stranger who doesn't know me\nu treat me like a stranger\nhowever...............\n\n\nthe last three words don't make any sense but I'm sure the is right\n\nlet me know what the last three actually are
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That's because our government has catered to them. Instead of following the laws that state they have to learn English. My feelings are if you live in a country learn the language. But our government gives them to many incentives to not learn our language.
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No. Those of our people are ignorant because they will not learn the language of the country they choose to live in. I have the same problem. I can't take it when I am at the store and they give me attitude because I asked them in English. I hope some of our people will learn English and stop being negative to our practices. Keep on talking maybe they will learn some thing.
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You've excellently highlighted the problems created when people start throwing around words that are politically correct.  PC words are the most meaningless, empty words in the world.  Indians, by the way, call themselves Indians.  Not Native Americans.  That's a label slapped on them by overly-concerned, guilt-ridden, white do-gooders.\n\nAll this [whatever] American stuff is crap.  We're all Americans, that's it.  We're all supposed to treat each other as equal and no different, yet everybody runs around trying to give themselves unique labels.  Me, personally, I'm an American American.
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Language is evolving all the time - for instance we no longer speak as Shakepeare did - or even as people did a 100 years ago.  Man on TV said with all internet, texting, mixed cultures, our language was definitely changing - particularly in the young.
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I'm extremely surprised by that too, and English is not even my native language. I don't know who's to blame for that, I guess that  everything you mentioned has an influence, but in my opinion the main reason for incorrect spelling is that people don't read as much as they should and therefore they don't get used to the correct forms of the written words.
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that's just our language. there is no logical explanation to it, a lot of english doenst make much sense. that's just how it is.
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The Guru isn't as funny as it should have been.
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Yes, I agree. It makes people look unintelligent when they don't use proper english...let's face it, it isn't that difficult. Unfortunately language is always developing. I think that when they have developed effective and wide spread voice recognition for computers then this type of thing should correct itself.
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At one point in history the french had control over the anglo-saxons, because they were trying to convert them to their ways they deemed it wrong for the anglo's to use their own language. They're language was deemed "bad" When they spoke they're language they were punished so in time due to conditioning they're future generations thought the words were just "bad"  I guess it grew with us through our history, these certain words, shunned by society but nobody really knows why.
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I'm sure they did when they first got here, but over time people didn't teach languages other than English to their children.  This often happens as a natural process when more than one language is available in the environment; people always want to learn the language of power, and ignore any others.  It's sad but true.  That's why I hope that people who read my answer will choose to continue speaking other languages, if they know them.  People are often worried about messing up their kids, but it doesn't mess them up.
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cause they are indians\n\n:> peace\n.