tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post8646084231417178684..comments2024-01-03T13:53:38.766+05:30Comments on pareltank: Indian Englishkochuthresiamma p .jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01320086308375078739noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-3435875224568346272011-12-08T18:46:31.317+05:302011-12-08T18:46:31.317+05:30Dr.Antony is correct, also I need to add one more ...Dr.Antony is correct, also I need to add one more thing; you don't have a solid subject to post may be thats the reason you always turning against the Kerala Society ...Vinuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546307620938156595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-25308234973348766042011-05-24T18:05:11.037+05:302011-05-24T18:05:11.037+05:30brilliant, madam. i was marvelling how good a teac...brilliant, madam. i was marvelling how good a teacher you must have been to your students.P. Venugopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145838046697625836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-56898567952750590262011-05-18T07:08:16.430+05:302011-05-18T07:08:16.430+05:30Indeed handling language let alone English is a “P...Indeed handling language let alone English is a “PAIN”.<br /><br />However I do not agree with the idea of Indianised version of spoken or written English. For that matter any language. Remember the late professor Krishnan Nair often used to comment, “Rape of the language”! Should Malayalam be westenised, be marathised for example? Certainly not!<br />The difficulty, especially in India where a anilkurup59https://www.blogger.com/profile/07961961217418715354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-91521382039074651272011-05-18T01:57:39.656+05:302011-05-18T01:57:39.656+05:30Dear KT Ms
That's indeed an interesting post.....Dear KT Ms<br />That's indeed an interesting post..<br />I have to play the part of an interpreter whenever I take my kids to Kerala/India, not malayalam to english and vice versa but Indian english to british English and then the other way round!!<br />TharaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-58645911434838798442011-05-18T00:31:21.673+05:302011-05-18T00:31:21.673+05:30a nice post..
I am told that I have very little ...a nice post.. <br /><br />I am told that I have very little "malluism" in my English.. <br /><br />Should I be proud? Or feel bad about the lost identity? :)Sands | കരിങ്കല്ല്https://www.blogger.com/profile/01834089213291976917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-88143791849387514602011-05-17T23:15:25.790+05:302011-05-17T23:15:25.790+05:30No, no, no! Please don't start giving our educ...No, no, no! Please don't start giving our educationists wrong ideas. If we lost pijja and Howrah breeze and ungle and andy from Gelf, we're losing all the fun, quirky stuff we put into the language. What's the point of a blah accent that doesn't sound like it's from anywhere? Oh, the fun you can have with accent-based mini-parlor games like "Guess where s/he's from?&Priya Ramachandranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641739714585961257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-27831682436291810092011-05-17T21:10:30.124+05:302011-05-17T21:10:30.124+05:30this is such an awesome post..reading one after a ...this is such an awesome post..reading one after a long time..i actually wished that you could share more such quips from the past..:) While i was in Hamburg, I often used to meet German and French colleagues who had a wrong illusion that we spoke really good English..Apparently our fast recitation of the queen's language made them think that we were probably good at it..Only if they knew thatmathewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00860741232962357228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-68778467302876384712011-05-17T15:08:22.395+05:302011-05-17T15:08:22.395+05:30A 1997 survey by India Today magazine estimated th...A 1997 survey by India Today magazine estimated that about a third of the country's population of more than one billion could carry on a conversation in English.Isnt that good enough?<br /> <br />Having travelled to different parts of the world,where they refuse to speak any language other than their own,ours is an exception.How we speak is another matter.But,for every non English speaking, dr.antonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16191095888228061156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-37026256663687151242011-05-17T13:56:17.637+05:302011-05-17T13:56:17.637+05:30Neutral Pronunciation: The standardization of Engl...Neutral Pronunciation: The standardization of English pronunciation for communication with the majority of the audience. This is accomplished through the study and knowledge of neutral pronunciation of English, one that is free of regionalisms and that conforms to the norms of the theatrical stage and public usage - that is, the pronunciation of news broadcasters, television actors and national ...https://www.blogger.com/profile/10908197301448418004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189016.post-10709071359726571762011-05-17T12:04:49.395+05:302011-05-17T12:04:49.395+05:30Interesting post..
While reading the 'curtain...Interesting post..<br /><br />While reading the 'curtain' incident,I, myself was recollecting several of such incidents.The horrible part though is the 'pity','stupid' kind of looks from the salesmen.<br /><br />Regarding Indian English, we think and speak as a 'regional' first,still considering English as a foreign language.As Balachandran Chullikkad once Mélangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807745317206193365noreply@blogger.com