Thinking Language

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I watched Ghajani last night (finally) and while I was discussing it with a friend of mine (who has a technical eye out for most things around), he made a sensible point. How, a person who had stayed and studied in the West most of his life (I am guessing the charecter was around 25-30 years of age), wrote a Diary in Hindi as opposed to English – which would come more naturally to him? Of course it’s a Hindi movie so crap has to happen in Hindi only :)

This got me thinking, what language do I think in and what language will I choose shoule I maintain a diary (if I ever do)? My choice, most conveniently and naturally, was English. What’s your’s?

To know this, just think if you had a bundle of money to count, what language would you count it in? Me, I will do it in English, rarely in hindi (I get stuck after 25 :D )

Though being a Tamilian by birth, (I am ashamed to say this) I can not read or write in Tamil. Hindi and English have been the languages which come to my rescue at ALL times. So, I think in English, mostly, Hindi at times – may be 20-30% of the time. What about you?

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