The archaic model where every tool gets full access to your home directory was never designed for the scenario where a single npm install will install and execute 100s of packages written by various authors.
> That every other vowel letter also can is English's low level of phoneticism
The level of phoneticism between English language and its latin script is not evenly spread.
For example, the letter "c" might mean /s/ or /k/ sound.
However, the letter "k" almost certainly means /k/ sound.
In some ways, the schwa sound in English the worst as there is no symbol which is committed even partially towards it.
> it is Rāma, and 'a' represents the schwa.
Sure, but if my name is Rāma, I have to choose either "Ram" or "Rama" or "Raama" for my passport name.
Or legal name in most places, non-alphabetic symbols do not work with all modern systems.
> Many other languages using the Latin script (German, Italian, Finnish) don't have this problem, what you see is what get.
English imports spellings from other cultures and adds its own layer of pronunciations.
Other languages probably don't do it as often.
> It's Ram, not Rama, it's yog, not yoga'... And they have no idea what schwa deletion is.
It is neither.
The fundamental issue is that there is no way to represent the schwa sound in English[1].
All of a,e,i,o,u have been used to communicate the schwa (or schwa-like) sound in English.
- The `a` in about
- The `e` in taken
- The `i` in cousin
- The `o` in button
- The `u` in upon
> Are you actually claiming English isn't a mother tongue to anyone?
I gave a specific example where neither the coffee wholesaler nor the buyer probably operates day to day in English. But they would still use English for the official agreement.
That does not take away from other benefits of English like being spoken by millions as a primary language and probably billions as a second language
> Sanskrit was widely spoken and understood just like Latin or Avestan, in its heyday. Otherwise it wouldn’t be part of the liturgical traditions of Buddhism, Jainism and Nastika traditions.
I think, and it is just my speculation, that for most of Indian History, Sanskrit was the link language.
Just like "Latin" in the USA and Europe of the early 17th and 18th centuries, when all academic instructions were carried out in Latin!
So, nobody used Sanskrit as the primary language, but everyone could or knew someone who could convert Sanskrit to the local dialect.
It is almost like how Chinese and Colombian traders might sign a contract for coffee purchase in English. Neither might use English in most of their daily operations.
There is no official "Prakrit", by definition of the term itself.
"Prakrit" just means "natural" and the way I understand it, was the term for all colloquial dialects/languages across India.
Listen to any on the Elon Musk interviews, he knows more technical intricacies of his 1000+ employee companies than your average startup founder with 10 employees.