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

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