On Thursday 19 Apr 2012 7:05:37 am Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > On a related note, it's very jarring when Indians use American legal > terms as if they're applicable globally. I've heard people talking > about the fifth amendment - as if a presidential reference to state > legislatures on matters affecting the states is somehow relevant to an > individual's discretion.
It's called "Americanitis" - a highly infectious condition that is caused by living in America and provokes the development of an American accent by the act of merely dropping a cousin off at the airport at the end of his "summer" holiday which actually comes in the middle of the monsoon season. shiv
