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[vgane]

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Dear Dr Ross

English is not undergoing a torture in India alone - here is a short story of the evolution of European English :

English or German, What shall it be??? The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English' In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vordskontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Cheers Yay Yem

Dear Shri AM,

OMG! Is it English or Greek & Latin combo...Going beyond my head & beats me

 

[Naina_Marbus]

Dear Dr Ross

English is not undergoing a torture in India alone - here is a short story of the evolution of European English :

English or German, What shall it be??? Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Cheers Yay Yem

I read this story years ago. es eet kan make u mad !

 

[Raji Ram]

I read this story years ago. es eet kan make u mad !

I remember to have read this in 'Reader's digest' lo............ng back!!

 

[Anand Manohar]

ven zer ar pepl on zis forum whu kan rite nonsens for ze hek of it , wy blam
newspaprs who 'pay' pepl to do ze sam ?

Yay Yem

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Wel sed on rite time!!!

 

[Anand Manohar]

Tmt VR

Yu spelt it rong !

Yay Yem

 

[kk4646]

Tmt VR

Yu spelt it rong !

Yay Yem

Why VR madam, RR Madam AM Sir all discuss in URUDU..?

TVK

 

[Raji Ram]

Why VR madam, RR Madam AM Sir all discuss in URUDU..? ...

ME? :nono:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Tmt VR

Yu spelt it rong !

Yay Yem

Ya! I spelled Time rong!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Why VR madam, RR Madam AM Sir all discuss in URUDU..?

TVK

Urdu??? :nono:

Indlish?? :nod:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Ya! I spelled Time rong!

Tiem is rite. Time is rong!!

 

[Raji Ram]

Ya! I spelled Time rong!

:nono: dabl leters!! :decision:

And,

Wel sed on rite time!!!

'rite' is also rong viz xtra 'e'!!

P.S: Nov, TVK sir kan ad me in ze list!!

 

[Raji Ram]

Urdu??? :nono:

Indlish?? :nod:

Indlish :nono:

Urolish :nod:

 

[Anand Manohar]

TVK Sir

It is Arabic actually - Tmt RR becomes " Sheikha Raji Zoujah Ram Al Iyer "

Yay Yem

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Sounds like the name of a fancy cocktail! :spit:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I have heard educated people pronounce
nine as nayan,
time as tayam,
current as currend,
puri as boori and
appalam as abbalam :bump2:

 

[vgane]

For me the language is smsish (small messaging service in English)

 

[Anand Manohar]

Dear Tmt VR

No, there were no cocktails at Tmt RR's place - but since you mentioned it ,
it just translates as " Princess Raji, wife of Ram, of the Iyer Tribe (!)"
- maybe 'clan' might be a slightly more refined word.

Yes, sounds grand and exotic name.

Yay Yem

 

[kk4646]

TVK Sir

It is Arabic actually - Tmt RR becomes " Sheikha Raji Zoujah Ram Al Iyer "

Yay Yem

Now I understand why the Britishers 'Quit' India..!!


TVK

 

[Anand Manohar]

TVK Sir

When a single person's name can be as long as a whole telegraphic message, imagine what revenues
it must've brought in to the P&T Dept.

No, that's not the reason why they left India.

Yay Yem

 

[renuka]

I have heard educated people pronounce
nine as nayan,
time as tayam,
current as currend,
puri as boori and
appalam as abbalam :bump2:

let me add...many pronounce my name Renuka as Renuga!

 

[renuka]

For me the language is smsish (small messaging service in English)

Actually the word SMS(short message/messaging service) is Indian!

Want to know how?

In Sanskrit samAsaH means shortening words into compounds..making it into short messages.

समासः sa mA saH..the words are SMS and the meaning is the same ..Short Messaging Service.

 

[Raji Ram]

let me add...many pronounce my name Renuka as Renuga!

Also Boomiga, Chandriga, Deepiga, Deviga, Menaga and BathmA (Padma) :dizzy:

 

[renuka]

Also Boomiga, Chandriga, Deepiga, Deviga, Menaga and BathmA (Padma) :dizzy:

Visalatchi instead of Visalakshi!

 

[renuka]

Dear RR ji,

You know I am surprised that many Indians out here where I stay cant pronounce my sons name Varun.

They pronounce Varun as Warren!

I remember when I my son was a baby..my mums neighbour one Indian Christian old man asked me my son's name and I said Varun.

He was shocked and said "what?? Harun?? why did you give a Muslim name to your child?"

I said its Varun and not Harun.