Thanks sidster for such a great thread and for all those who are participating on it actively.

It had been a while that a good subject had not been debated here in sajha without degenerating it into an exchange of insults. 

Anyway, TM, you are completely right to say that a strength and depth of a culture is highly measured by it's language and cuisine. Look at french people, their culture is/was one of the best known and copied in the world. One of the reasons is due to their highly rich and famous language and cuisine. While living in France for a while few years ago, I realized how seriously they took their language. I was told by almost every french I met that seeing and hearing a badly written french with an exception from a foreigner was very bad to the taste. And it could even disgust people and show a level of one's intelect.

I think in Nepal, we have a greater need to enforce proper learning of nepali langauge. Everything in our language is greatly ignored as long as it gets you through.

As for nepalese having difficulty with english pronouncation, Sh and Sha, as in "shower" and "sour" seems to be a common one.

The other one is "edge". We tend to pronounce it as "ege" while completely forgetting the "d".