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Selma Carvalho wrote:
Those who speak English as a second language, which is what a vast majority of
Indians do, can
>speak it as proficiently or deficiently as they wish.
And Frederick responded
Even here, your figures and claims are incorrect. To quote a recent
(Mar 2010) report from the Times of India, "English was the primary
language for barely 2.3 lakh Indians at the time of the census, more
than 86 million listed it as their second language and another 39
million as their third language." [3]
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Frederick, it feels like you jumped out of bed in your pyjamas and decided to
bang out some words on your type-writer in the hope that some coherent argument
will form. Sadly, that is not how coherent arguments form. To give you an idea
of your incoherence, I have cut-n-pasted above your counter-argument that "more
than 8.6 million listed English as their second language and 39 million as
their third." I believe that is exactly what I said, that the "vast majority of
Indians" speak English as a second language.
I seriously wonder whether you read my posts at all or whether when you see the
name "Carvalho" appear, you immediately think to yourself that you must find a
counter-argument in your arsena of used and hackneyed arguments (the most
famous of which is "blame it on the expat" followed by "what are you doing
about it?"). I know the dialectic tradition must be celebrated but surely this
tradition calls for some semblance of accuracy when rebutting. Van will you
learn men?
As for the rest of your post, sorry, but I rather be cooking potato-chops in my
English kitchenette than responding to something that makes no sense
whatsoever. And in summation, if you think things in Goa are all hunky-dory,
then hats off to you. The Alice in Wonderland syndrome is not a bad thing to
suffer from.
One green chillie, two potatoes and 1 packet of minced meat...
Best,
Selma
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