
The world is changing and Uddhav still fixated on language may want to take notes from millennial son Aaditya who has rightly gauged the economic and cultural practicality of cities staying open 24×7. I may even be interested in learning the language in new ways through new technological mediums without a language forced down mine or my son’s throats. Netflix and Prime have already opened the world of Marathi films to thousands like me. In future, I could have a perfect conversation in Marathi with Uddhav Thackeray without even knowing the language. Chinese passport reading machines are communicating back in your mother tongues at their airports. Moreover, language nazis are anachronisms in this age of Google Translate. Young people will invariably learn the languages they need to survive in the worlds they exist. In a globalised world where people are forever on the move, education curriculum needs to show flexibility, at least in terms of language. Hailing from Kerala, I worry how my son would catch up with Malayalam in middle school if we return home someday. I want my son to learn Hindi but I am unsure how I can help him with my own rudimentary knowledge of the language. I admitted my son in a Waldorf school where he would be in kindergarten and out of the pale of academics. Both he and I were absolutely at sea with the text and we beat a strategic retreat. More recently, I recoiled in horror opening my son’s Class 1 Hindi textbook. I struggled with Malayalam and Hindi and ironically came to love both languages only after I left school. Languages were never my cup of tea in school. Languages will find their speakers, tutors and learners. Uddhav would be better off ensuring a steady stream of qualified Marathi teachers to schools. Curriculum choices are best left to educationists, parents, capacity of schools, and finally the learning ability of children themselves. Children studying in private schools and under other education boards shouldn’t be held hostage by his government’s decisions. His remit should not extend beyond the state board that Maharashtra govenment runs. Uddhav Thackeray may be the chief minister of Maharashtra but winning election mandates should not give politicians the power to decide what children should learn or not. ‘One guy would jibber-jabber, then bend down to tie his shoes and stick 300 worth of stuff in his bag.’. ‘he's a happy kid, always jibber-jabbering’. ‘he was jibber-jabbering with his wife through the entire first piece’. I hold no brief for any language and am proud that I can read, speak and write three languages-English, Malayalam, Hindi-and can understand and speak and bit of Tamil. no object Talk in a rapid and excited way that is difficult to understand. Karnataka under Siddaramaiah saw the rise of Kannada crusaders who harboured ideas of mandating that even adults spoke the language at workplaces. Against the tide of language fanaticism and compulsory mother tongue learning, Andhra Pradesh saw merit in making English compulsory. Kerala made learning of Malayalam compulsory some years ago. localeTerritory, err := jibber_jabber.DetectTerritory()Īll the Detect commands will return an error if they are unable to read the Locale from the system.įor Windows, additional error information is provided due to the nature of the system call being used.Maharashtra has made learning Marathi compulsory till Class 12. We provide 100s of Ecards and year-round fun for the whole family, your friends & co-workers.
#Jibber jabber language iso#
The format will be the ISO 3166 two-letter country code. Send Funny Ecards All Year Long There’s always an occasion to cheer someone up - using our funny, personalized videos with JibJab style and humor. userLanguage, err := jibber_jabber.DetectLanguage()ĭetectTerritory will return the current locale territory as a string. The format will be the ISO 639 two-letter language code. userLocale, err := jibber_jabber.DetectIETF()ĭetectLanguage will return the current languge as a string. The format of the locale will be the ISO 639 two-letter language code, a DASH, then an ISO 3166 two-letter country code. UsageĪdd the following line to your go import: "/cloudfoundry/jibber_jabber"ĭetectIETF will return the current locale as a string.


#Jibber jabber language windows#
These calls are supported in Windows Vista and up. January 23, 2020, 7:55 PM IST Jiby J Kattakayam in Jibber Jabber, India, TOI. Windows via GetUserDefaultLocaleName and GetSystemDefaultLocaleName system calls. The oppressiveness of imposing one’s language on others.


These are standard variables that are used in ALL versions of UNIX for language detection. OSX and Linux via the LC_ALL and LANG environment variables. Jibber Jabber is a GoLang Library that can be used to detect an operating system's current language.
