4/26/2023 0 Comments Sanskrit to bengali alphabetI probably can do the same with Unicode input with other popular Bangla tools. I am not very proud of my unfamiliarity with the Bangla keyboard-occasionally I would use Google online input to write Bangla. Many of our Facebook comments are written using English I too, am guilty of such lapses. Given the rise of many digital interfaces, we often use Roman (Latin) scripts to represent Bangla pronunciation. Revisiting such a history will make us more aware of our commitment to our own language. What does it tell us about us as a nation and our attitudes towards our mother tongue? Interestingly, such code-switching or code-mixing has a political history that we often tend to overlook. There is also this mental switch that makes us travel between option one and two even when there is no button to press. Many of the call centres have this linguistic option. But we often switch to number two at any given opportunity. Is it a second language or a foreign language? There should not be any such question about our first language, our mother tongue in our everyday life. In academia, the status of English is often contested in the Bangladeshi context.
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