On Saturday 10 Jan 2009 12:07:05 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > Your being non-english medium educated has no bearing on your using > > shortened words. Lots of English-medium educated people us such words > > too. > > I studied in an "English Medium" school throughout my 10 years of > schooling. However, apart from picking up formal English language lessons, > it did nothing to help me to use English as a daily medium of communication > because we always used to talk in the mother tongue at school.
anyway, I have seen that people with poor communication skills in English have even poorer communication skills in their mother tongue. I once rejected a poorly written job application and asked the person to re present it with proper grammar and spelling and got a long missive basically saying that his language was Kannada and he was being forced to use an alien tongue - English. I replied in Kannada asking him to submit his application in Kannada - he was unable to read my reply! I have lots of correspondence with people from non-english backgrounds. Their choice of words and grammatical constructions are sometimes very peculiar - but they *do* succeed in communicating. And communicating effectively. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
