Comments on: Mother tongues and other tongues http://kbalakumar.com/2009/05/02/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues/ All is fair in love & laughter Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: K Balakumar http://kbalakumar.com/2009/05/02/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-391 K Balakumar Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:03:45 +0000 http://balakumark.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-391 @ananthnatarajan: Sorry, it being a small word, must have eluded my attention :) @ananthnatarajan: Sorry, it being a small word, must have eluded my attention :)

]]> By: Ananth http://kbalakumar.com/2009/05/02/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Ananth Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:00:20 +0000 http://balakumark.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-390 Hmmm, you could use floccinoccininihilipilification twice in the same paragraph :) Hmmm, you could use floccinoccininihilipilification twice in the same paragraph :)

]]> By: balakumark http://kbalakumar.com/2009/05/02/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-20 balakumark Fri, 08 May 2009 13:48:47 +0000 http://balakumark.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-20 Raj: I dread the thought of reading technical manuals. Only journalists' reports are worse. You know what I am coming to. Raj: I dread the thought of reading technical manuals. Only journalists’ reports are worse. You know what I am coming to.

]]> By: Raj http://kbalakumar.com/2009/05/02/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Raj Sun, 03 May 2009 05:25:39 +0000 http://balakumark.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-19 You really think English matters? We have already got a new dialect that is spoken by call center staff and another form that has been perfected by cool dudes and dudettes (is that what a female dude is to be called?) - the language called SMSese. There is good reason for us to learn English today because the Brits hardly speak it the way it was supposed to and the Americans cannot be included in the list of English-speaking nations anyways! The day is not far when Indian-ese would be the language of the world - unless of course the Chinese overtake us in outsourcing - a real possibility too. Read any technical publication or any market report and I will rest my case! You really think English matters? We have already got a new dialect that is spoken by call center staff and another form that has been perfected by cool dudes and dudettes (is that what a female dude is to be called?) – the language called SMSese.

There is good reason for us to learn English today because the Brits hardly speak it the way it was supposed to and the Americans cannot be included in the list of English-speaking nations anyways!

The day is not far when Indian-ese would be the language of the world – unless of course the Chinese overtake us in outsourcing – a real possibility too. Read any technical publication or any market report and I will rest my case!

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