It appears that rediff has run out of real news. Hence the desperation. Appalling to see an Indian website mocking Indians. Seriously, is there a part-2 of this article? How about Americans (with English as their mothertounge) making mistakes? I keep hearing "I ain't got nothing.". That is a murder of English language. Indians are far better. Myopics like this author can't/won't see it.
Re: Re: Pathetic
by First Last on Jul 22, 2011 12:12 AM
HUH? Forgot your medicines or reading comprehension issue? Logic, clearly, is not something you should tackle with. Give up.
Dear author I m looking forward to improve my pronunciation so would you help me any suggestions how to pronounce correctly complex word. If there is pronunciation software then please recommend it to me.
THE SAME UNIQUENESS WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN LOSS OF BUSINESS, SAY A DECADE AGO. YES, THESE ENGLISH PEOPLE, WOULD HAVE THROWN INDIAN BUSINESSES INTO DUSTBIN EVEN FOR SUCH LANGUAGE MISTAKES IN THE PAST.
BUT TODAY, YOU KNOW, THE ENGLISH MAN HIMSELF TRY TO UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY,EVEN HE WILL ASK US SEVERAL TIMES AND GET CLARIFIED WHAT WE MEAN. BECAUSE NOBODY IN THE WORLD , TODAY , AFFORD TO LOSE AN INDIAN BUSINESS.
ONCE, THERE WERE MANY TRAINERS MAKING MONEY IN INDIA, TO TEACH CROSS CULTURAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR DOING BUSINESS WITH EUROPEANS.
BUT , TODAY, IT IS AN OBSOLUTE TRUTH, THERE ARE TRAINERS IN EUROPE, WHO ARE TEACHING CROSS CULTURAL ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM. YES THEY HAVE LEARNT TO ADJUST WITH US. IT IS THEIR COMPULSION.
BUT FOR OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS , WE WOULD HAVE SURPASSED CHINA, BY NOW.
Re: Re: PREETI IS PARTLY CORRECT AND PARTLY INCORRECT
by dajiba on Jul 21, 2011 04:20 AM
Actually varan-bhat(h) will help in improving your bihari brain.
Re: PREETI IS PARTLY CORRECT AND PARTLY INCORRECT
by RN Iyengar on Jul 21, 2011 01:59 AM
Most of the so-called mistakes are not really mistakes at all; they are spoken colloquially. They would be wrong in formal written language. In fact, she should address the pathetic writing of college students these days; they use the same SMS text language in writing papers!!
How can the author of this article mention these as Top 18 mistakes? Has she done a survey? Some of the mistakes (like confusing accept & except) are common global mistakes, Not specific to Desis. I think using the work desi also qualifies as a mistake.
wow how polished are we with our gora saheb's language? does any of the firangs care about any of our languages or even names while pronouncing. and what do you mean by "desi"?can't we use more dignified words to describe ourselves? we indian are used to thinking in our mothertongue or in hindi & majority of the times we think n then convert verbatim n then speak in english. seriously whoever thought of using the title with "desi" must be a "vedesi" a result of "foreign invasion" (pun intended)
Re: top 18 english mistakes
by Against Pseudos on Jul 21, 2011 08:53 AM
Manoj Nair:
a) If you think firangs are doing injustice to our language, then hopefully the same logic applies in reverse b) I don't know what Rediff means by "Desi". But I have read enough Rediff headlines that have nothing to do with the actual article. When you too read more Rediff articles you'll start appreciating that phenomenon.
And puhleease... don't make fun of our language by calling a Hindi word like Desi give British connotations... ;-)
