On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 12:26:19 am divya manian wrote: > You have, er, hit the nail on the head. English is taught using old, > archaic texts (some schools still teach Shakespeare for "non-detailed > text"). Wren and Martin is still standard issue grammar, and kids are > still being taught to "write a letter". The more floral, the better it > is.
When Americans "mauled" English and made it their own - they did not worry about what was proper English When the Aussies did that - again there was no such worry. English speakers from "the provinces" such a Lancashire, Yorkshire or even from the heartland (Cockney) speak barely intelligible gibberish. But is is only Indians who seek to mimic a particular variant of spoken English and virtually haul over the coals other Indians who are unable to conform. This has been described as the mind of the Macaulayputra - or a colonized mind. There is, of course another linguistic explanation - fractal recursivity. shiv
