{"id":532,"date":"2015-06-10T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.pune.wordcamp.org\/?p=532"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:51:59","slug":"hindi-and-marathi-at-wordcamp-pune-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/hindi-and-marathi-at-wordcamp-pune-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindi and Marathi at WordCamp Pune 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWe’re not going into the elitism involved with English vs other languages<\/a> phenomenon that’s become a standard. English is the formal language of work, education, conferences (like WordCamps), etc. Hindi\/Marathi are casual languages used for entertainment, conversation,\u00a0banter and “ordinary” activities.<\/p>\n

We wish to try and change that.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWhich Indian language will grow the most?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jimmy Wales<\/a>, co-founder, WikiPedia<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  1. We’re making WordCamp Pune more fun and interactive so that all of us\u00a0can use Hindi\/Marathi more comfortably in a more informal setting.<\/li>\n
  2. In the opposite direction, we’re introducing Marathi and Hindi into the “formal” activities like learning about WordPress.<\/li>\n
  3. While doing that we don’t want to indulge the Hindi\/Marathi shared elitism of using\u00a0shuddha<\/em>(pure) Sanskritised words for everything. Hinglish, Marathi Hinglish are very practical and useful concoctions. Let’s use them instead.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even though more people speak Hindi and\/or Marathi comfortably than those who speak English,\u00a0we aren’t blind jingoists. English remains the\u00a0default and dominant language of WordCamp Pune 2015. We say “more” Hindi\/Marathi not “all”. We are also part of an awesome international community and English is our best friend there! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    Now, if you know a couple of friends (as I do) who have great knowledge and skill but shy away from English and a large crowd, ask them to apply<\/a>. They can speak in Hindi\/Marathi to a more intimate audience and take\u00a0some community love and good karma home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We’re not going into the elitism involved with English vs other languages phenomenon that’s become a standard. English is the formal language of work, education, conferences (like WordCamps), etc. Hindi\/Marathi are casual languages used for entertainment, conversation,\u00a0banter and “ordinary” activities. We wish to try and change that. \u201cWhich Indian language will grow the most?\u201d \u2013 … Continue reading Hindi and Marathi at WordCamp Pune 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3953804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[172415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67dsD-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3953804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}