Hear, hear, Shiv! Why do we always apologize for our florid language, our accent(s) and all the variety and musicality we bring to English! the worst of this attitude is evident in how we ridicule regional variations when we ought to revel in them. Vive la difference!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
