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mohan ramakrishnan
Personal Manager?
by mohan ramakrishnan on May 03, 2011 12:47 PM  | Hide replies

I have not come across the term Personal Manager. It is always the Personnel Manager who looks after recruitment etc in an organisation.

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ajay
Re: Personal Manager?
by ajay on May 03, 2011 12:58 PM
the difference between personal and personnel is personal refers to one person and Personnel refers to body of persons working

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Allinone
Re: Personal Manager?
by Allinone on May 03, 2011 12:55 PM
agree...pat on ur back

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Abaka
Q12
by Abaka on May 03, 2011 12:20 PM  | Hide replies

Personnel is the correct answer.

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Somali
Re: Q12
by Somali on May 03, 2011 12:39 PM
Agreed.

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Venky N
Re: Q12
by Venky N on May 03, 2011 12:59 PM
You are right, Q12 - the answer should be personnel. Whoever has framed these must undergo a test! :)

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rahul jagdale
Re: Re: Q12
by rahul jagdale on May 03, 2011 09:00 PM
I guess you should undergo a test!! please read the sentence in it's totality.
Personal is correct answer.

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Guru Prasad
Re: Acing this quiz makes one an
by Guru Prasad on May 03, 2011 11:45 AM
well said

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ravi chinchalkar
Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by ravi chinchalkar on May 03, 2011 11:31 AM  | Hide replies

in fact such words having same pronounciation but defferent meanings are called as homonyms ,it matters lot while their placements in sentence.

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Palmas Palmas
Re: Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by Palmas Palmas on May 03, 2011 01:10 PM
It is not 'pronounciation', it is 'pronunciation'.

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ravi chinchalkar
Re: Re: Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by ravi chinchalkar on Aug 07, 2011 02:09 PM
thanks for bringing in notice my mistake,

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dschauhan singh
Strengthen Vocabulary thru Cricket
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Neo x
Result
by Neo x on May 03, 2011 11:10 AM  | Hide replies

15/15.....yawn..

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Against Pseudos
Re: Result
by Against Pseudos on May 03, 2011 12:59 PM
Including the wrong answer given by Rediff, which made mine 14/15 (which is actually 15/15) :)

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Pavan S
Re: Result
by Pavan S on May 03, 2011 01:00 PM
So that means you got the Personal manager question right. But it actually means you got 14 on 15.

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Against Pseudos
Re: Re: Result
by Against Pseudos on May 03, 2011 01:05 PM
;-)

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Hebbar R
Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by Hebbar R on May 03, 2011 10:08 AM  | Hide replies

There are many who wrognly use the words "effect" and "affect". In India there are many terms that are wrongly used. One such common example is "I can able to ....".

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s A
Re: Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by s A on May 03, 2011 10:11 AM
Yes, if you can analyse the Indian English slang a person speaks you can know to which state he belongs.

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Pavan S
Re: Think you're an English whiz? Take this quiz!
by Pavan S on May 03, 2011 01:07 PM
It's not just Indians (Btw it's just become a fad to bash Indians)

Even the Americans with English as their mother tongue make so many such mistakes. Only the truly educated ones do not make such mistakes as is the case in India.

You're and your, who is & whose - Are some of the common mistakes that i have seen them commit.

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Ravi
completed
by Ravi on May 03, 2011 10:04 AM

who will give the quiz result?

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s A
Manglish pronounciation
by s A on May 03, 2011 10:02 AM  | Hide replies

The words most murdered by Malayalees are:
kangaroo (the worst offended word), bear (Malayalees pronounce this as ‘beer’), bass, twitter, Queen, Birthday, Mascot Hotel, mixed, fixed (another worse case pronounced as miksed, fiksed), form (they say ‘farum’), Tortoise, turtle, garage, chassis, heart (pronounced as ‘hurt’), Australia - there is only 1 'aaa' sound, no 'o' sound!!!!


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nizar tp
Re: Manglish pronounciation
by nizar tp on May 03, 2011 12:12 PM
Dear
Australia is called as 'Aastralia' in malyalam writing/news papers. Same is for China which malayalis call as 'Cheeena'

I have heard hindi news readers using 'Cheen' for China and 'Rus' for Russia. Its how they used to call the countries before.

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DEEP DAAS
Re: Manglish pronounciation
by DEEP DAAS on May 03, 2011 10:47 AM
That way every community will have some typical accent associated with them. This should not be used to make fun of someone or some community, which unfortunately is being done even in films. Similarly every community will have people who can speak English as good as or even better than the British. Shashi Tharoor for example is a Malayalee. And btw I'm not a Malayalee, but I don't like this unusual focus on someone's accent. A person's thoughts and opinions should be judged on its content value rather than on accent.

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sunil nair
Re: Manglish pronounciation
by sunil nair on May 03, 2011 12:59 PM
Malayalees are those who speak Malayalam . How they speak English is beside the point . Every state in India have people who speak English in a different way . So which is the correct way ? I don't think any native speaker speaks the Queen's english except for a few educated in England . Even the Americans murder English if you go by their accents . Besides even in Kerala people speak English in different ways in different places .

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s A
Re: Re: Manglish pronounciation
by s A on May 04, 2011 02:10 PM
I don't agree to this. This is how English is being taught in any average school in Kerala. And the Malayalam newspapers add to this murder.

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