Of course it's not true! Indians spoke English to the 'manor' born, with no slips or stumbles! Anybody who denies that is a lackey of the Marxist hordes ruling Indian history - and economics, and anthropology, and sociology and that whole pack of nonsense outside the good ole professions - and probably thinks that we speak what we do because the Aryans came riding in, two by two, hurrah.
Having thrown You Know Who off the scent, we can re-convene under the rowan bushes, or, since there isn't much rowan growing in India, the rhododendrons, and plot how to send out the truth, which is ....... Aaaaaaack! He's got me! We've been betrayed! Scatter, you fools! Sent from my iPad On Jul 14, 2012, at 3:16 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > >> The most well adjusted Indian is the one who is not conscious and apologetic >> about his English and his accent and does not squrim in the presence of other >> indians who speak "out of date" English. It is not out of date in India. > > The British didn't help exactly in this respect you know, > > Mundy, Talbot. King of the Khyber Rifles: > > "He spoke English well enough. Few educated foreign gentlemen could > have spoken it better, although there was the tendency to use slang > that well-bred natives insist on picking up from British officers; and > as he went on, here and there the native idiom crept through, > translated." > > This is Mundy who was supposed to be understanding of the natives, > Kipling no doubt would have fainted at so much praise being offered to > a native. >
