Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Incentives
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2020 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
From the time that I was a child, my parents wanted me to learn and be fluent in Kannada. My interest has waxed and waned.
Yesterday I saw this tweet, which starts generalizing (in English) about girls named Sumana, and then switches to Kannada to make a jibe that I only fractionally understand.
Finally I have a strong, urgent motive to learn fluent Kannada: people might be making fun of me and I need to know what they're saying.
